Coping skills are an awesome way to deal with distressing situations and anxiety. On this page, you’ll find some coping skills others find useful, simple, and effective.
Instead of listing what you're grateful for, list past struggles that shaped you into who you are today. Reflect on how challenges helped you grow and what strengths you gained from them.
Write a letter to a person, a situation, or even an emotion. Express everything you feel without filtering. Once finished, decide whether to keep, shred, or burn it as a symbolic release of those emotions.
Take a short walk while focusing on engaging all five senses. Identify five things you see, four sounds you hear, three textures you touch, two scents you smell, and one thing you taste (like gum or tea). This grounds you in the present and reduces stress.
Fidgeting is a self soothing activity almost everyone does, even if they don't realize it. Here are some the ways I use Jewelry to helped alleviate my anxiety.
Taking deep breathes is a awesome way calm down after extreme angery, anxiety, panic, mania, and more. I hope you find this as useful of a coping skill as I do.
Showering is a great coping skill when you have access to one. Showering is a positive way to clear your head or just reflect on your day. This can also help when you're having a heated argument with your partner(s), friend(s), or family.
This coping skill will help you come back to reality and stay calm under distressing circumstances. It focuses on your five senses! Want to practice self-control in an easy and accessible way? Ready? Here's how you do it:
Enjoying your hobbies is a great long term coping skill. This can help with major depressive disorder, general anxiety disorder, borderline personality disorder, and many other long term mental health disorders. Unlike our other coping skills this is usually a commitment and not just for extremely alarming situations.
Here's the first coping skill we'd like to share, hand tapping! This can help you stay focused, alleviate anxiety, and just calm down in general.
A simple way to calm yourself down from a distressing situation is to remember some simple reassuring messages. This is useful when you're stressing about something or just can't seem to stop obsessing over an upcoming event. It's also nice to remember these when you feel like you aren't enough.
