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Low mood and hard feelings
Feelings are information before they are problems. The practices here are about naming what you feel accurately, sitting with what will not move yet, and acting on what matters to you even on the days nothing feels like anything.
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3 practicesTheme · When you use something to cope
How long you have · Longer
Approach · DBT skills
If you are using something to cope and it has become hard to stop, please speak to a doctor before changing anything.
If cutting down has failed over and over, that is information rather than a verdict on you. For some people the workable goal turns out to be none rather than less.
Starting young makes this more likely, and the earlier the heavy use began the harder the road back to casual use tends to be. Nobody enjoys hearing…
If the language of a recovery group puts you off, that is a reason to look for a different group, not a reason to decide that help is not for you.
Programmes vary a lot in how they talk. Some lean on surrender to a higher power, others are built around self-management and practical tools, and…
The useful part is not the chart on the wall. It is that the person could think of things to do instead, and that took months of quiet work to arrive at.
Someone else's list of alternatives will not hold, because they thought of theirs and you did not. Build yours slowly, adding what has genuinely…