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Share your top tips for self-care, coping & avoiding self-harm
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Hey everyone,
This week it's Eating Disorders Awareness Week and Self-Harm Awareness Day. We thought it would be good to put together a thread where we can all share our top tips for self-care, coping and avoiding self-harm.
Comment below 5 things that help you when you're struggling. Maybe something on your list could help someone that's struggling.
We'll be creating a Community top tips guide so if there's something someone has listed that you like, comment on this thread to let us know
- Aife & the team
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1. Holding ice in your hand ( creates pain without leaving a scar )
2.Drawing on the place you want to Self harm with a red Pen ( simulated blood without attucally self harming and it’s pretty good to be able to wipe it away after )
3. Draw a Butterfly on where you want to self harm and spray it with hairspray to make it waterproof ( deterrent from self harming as you won’t want to ruin the beautiful butterfly)
4. Sleep ! ( if your asleep you can’t do anything and hopefully when you awake the feeling would of passed )
5. Calm Harm app ( encourages you to ride the wave of urges and provides different activities to do , you don’t even have to think of then there already listed )
2. Draw, paint or make something - art therapy
3. Hide objects you'd use - some put them in the freezer
4. Punch pillow
5. Message friends or call support lines
1- this breathing thing
https://goo.gl/images/S6Fm2L
2 - reading positive affrimations/quotes
3 - looking at things around me in loads of detail - colours,texure,shape ect. To focus on present (mindfullness)
4 watch eastenders - so it makes me feel lil bit better about my own life lool cause so bad & is distraction aswell
5 - be around people - cause less likely to self harm & be with pets