Discussion What unhealthy coping strategies are you using?

[throwawayghm]

smoking, drinking, and ofc cause I hate myself sh

 

[Message In A Bottle]

Burying my emotions for the sake of others.

 

[nyotei_]

drugs, a 9 hour long ctb playlist, self-sabotage, and sh.

 

[thankyouforthis]

Isolation, escapism (reading, gaming, and daydreaming/daymaring), and I'm not eating as much as I should be but I can't really tell if that's because I'm depressed or because I am so broke I'm just not buying enough food. Probably both. I think I need to learn more about cooking so that I can try to make a wider variety of things with fewer ingredients, so that food can be exciting again, maybe.

 

[TheCallOfTheStars]

Immersing myself in my own little world with my own little characters that I made up over the past 6 or so years of my life. Sometimes, I pretend I'm one of them and go about acting like them until I feel normal again.
Also, binge eating, staying up all night gaming, porn, and violent thoughts.

 

[supercyberbleach]

Immersing myself in my own little world with my own little characters that I made up over the past 6 or so years of my life. Sometimes, I pretend I'm one of them and go about acting like them until I feel normal again.
Also, binge eating, staying up all night gaming, porn, and violent thoughts.

Heroin, opioids, weed, diet pills, starving, sh, gaming 24/7. I wish I could get and take heroin regularly again tbh. Anorexia will have to do.

 

[TheCallOfTheStars]

Heroin, opioids, weed, diet pills, starving, sh, gaming 24/7. I wish I could get and take heroin regularly again tbh. Anorexia will have to do.

Man, I wish I had weed. I was recommended it back then to deal with some of my mental issues but never got ahold of it like ever

 

[supercyberbleach]

Man, I wish I had weed. I was recommended it back then to deal with some of my mental issues but never got ahold of it like ever

Do you have much of a homeless population in your area? That is how I got all my drugs connections

Man, I wish I had weed. I was recommended it back then to deal with some of my mental issues but never got ahold of it like ever

Also sorry I totally meant to reply to the thread not your comment!!!

 

[TheCallOfTheStars]

Do you have much of a homeless population in your area? That is how I got all my drugs connections

Also sorry I totally meant to reply to the thread not your comment!!!

I live in a heavily populated metro area so of course there's gonna be homeless people here lol

 

[supercyberbleach]

I live in a heavily populated metro area so of course there's gonna be homeless people here lol

Find a homeless person, ask if they have any drug connects for the thing you're looking for and offer them a cut of whatever you pick up and you should have a drug connection in 5 seconds lmao

 

[Dark Moon]

Just rotting in bed, doomscrolling and sleeping.

 

[itsgone2]

Just rotting in bed, doomscrolling and sleeping.

That will be me soon. Need to go to work today though. Sucks. So tired.

 

[stardewwindceres]

substances-legal and illegal (when I can find illegal) and anorexia (since high school-history of relapses, I have never managed to fully recover. Relapsed a few months ago actually, currently still going through this one) sleeping- I guess that's not unhealthy- sleeping too much is, I'm told but I don't know. There's probably more.

 

[astr4]

drugs. video games. fiction.

 

[X-sanguinate86]

Seems like food is high up on the list of unhealthy addictive copioids for a lot of people, myself included. At first it doesn't appear dangerous but before you know it you're fat and that makes everything else way worse and then before you know it you've got new physical problems as a result. I hate it.

 

[fromange]

Binge eating, doom scroll/internet, self blame, bedrotting (not necessarily oversleeping. I kinda wish I could be asleep for longer)

 

[Nrocoop]

Food, booze, avoiding people in the real world, and grandiose thoughts about what my life could have been if I hadn't drawn the short straw for crappy mental health

 

[Cauliflour]

When I feel shit I go and write long winded posts here that border on TMI paired with shitty little drawings. That seems to help.

Cutting relaxes me but I wouldn't do it when I'm stressing out, writing manifestos on the suicide forum. That'll be too many emotions and I already can't handle them well currently.

 

[TwistedNightmares]

Bed rotting, doomscrolling, isolating myself, suicide ideation, oversleeping and forcing myself to stay up all night/day.

Edit: Suppose I should also mention that I don't drink enough water either, as a form of punishment to myself.

 

[NormallyNeurotic]

Having this forum make up most of my interaction with other people.

 

[Green Destiny]

Pornography, way way too much of it that it turned me into a gooner that can only go a few days before relapsing. I'll try to see if I can go through November without gooning but I'll probably relapse in a week at most.

 

[littlecutecorpse]

hmm...let me think...bedrotting, doomscrolling, oversleeping, binge eating, vomiting, sh'ing, gooning, copious amounts of coffee (often at night), spending all my time on this forum, lashing out on everyone.....yeah, think that's it. the ratio between unhealthy/healthy coping skills for me is absurd, come to think about it.

 

[calixocat]

I like to sh , punch myself in the stomach, bang my head against the wall or sometimes I burn myself.

 

[natori]

ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms)

Playing instruments is fun too

 

[Gangrel]

food food and lazyness

 

[Elsie]

Stress eating, scrolling, bl stuff

 

[fallingbehind]

Some people say isolation but I rather that then be the people pleasing moron I was as a teenager, so Im not sure if thats a worse or better cope.

Binging actual garbage that doesnt taste good, doomscrolling, maladaptive daydreaming, letting my hair matt and fall off, etc

 

[indianachrome]

hours and hours in bed doomscrolling and existing on Sa Su, being irritable, making poor decisions daily

 

[Bowerbird]

Herbs.

 

[not yet]

I listen to the same music on repeat literally for hours, or even re-listen to a specific section of a track, because it evokes certain feelings in me. It can be some OST and I replay the entire scene the OST played in over and over again in my head. It's more of an addiction at this point.
I kinda envy people who can cope with fiction btw; I have a huge backlog of video games, books, movies, and anime I'm interested it, but I have a hard time starting anything new