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huh?? change my name???
mochi --> pancakes? pudding? ice cream?
Hahaha.. kidding
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mochi --> pancakes? pudding? ice cream?
Hahaha.. kidding
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When life is stressful...
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That poster? A woman after my own heart!
Oh I also tried doing something random last time. When I was on a high and feeling alive and free and thankful cause everything was going great for me, I wrote a letter of encouragement to myself for the future for when I feel down again. It actually worked. When I was depressed at one time, I read my own encouragement and remembered that feelings and circumstance change, but God's love and value placed on my existence would never. It lessened the pain.
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The driving thingy might be difficult I can't drive and also in the UK, the
length of Britain is a mere 874 miles.
Land's End to John o' Groats is the traversal of the whole
length of the island of Great Britain between two extremities;
in the southwest and northeast. The traditional distance
by road is 874 miles (1,407 km)
Changing names sounds a good idea. I might just change my name to
"Iwilldothatforyou" then I will have loads of people willing to help me.
Um what do I do when stressed - go to bed get a good nights sleep, then live to
fight another day.
If that doesn't work I stomp about a bit throw my dummy out of the pram, cry give
myself a headache, take two aspirin then go to bed and get a good nights sleep,
wake up the next day and realise I could have done that before and missed out the
headache bit and saved a dummy.
Last year was way beyond stress, the word stress did not even cover it.
I found a really useful phone app about cognitive behaviour therapy which
really did work.
It starts by asking:-
Establishing the facts
1) What was happening just before your mood worsened, who else was there,
what were your thoughts. There is space to type up your comments.
Making sense of the situation
2) What was the most upsetting thing on your mind
what did that thought mean to you
how much did you believe that thought was true 0-100% scale
again you have to type up your comments.
Emotions
3) What emotion was strongly associated with the key thought in this
situation and you have to rate the strength of it.
Physical sensations
4) What physical sensation was most strongly associated with the key thought
and rate the strength of it.
Behaviour
5) What did you do in response to the way you were thinking and feeling,
after this how did you feel - rate the strength of your response.
It then summarises everything you have put and somehow seeing it all
typed up like that instead of thoughts running away with themselves and
out of control, really does help to get things into perspective.
It then comes up with the following:-
"so we have identified the thought that was most upsetting, this can be
known as the hot thought. We will now go on to establish the evidence for and
against the hot thought at the moment you believe this - and gives you a
percentage.
It then goes through your perceptions of the situation and evidence for and
against the possibility of events happening the way you fear, then there is
various other things to type up and comment on.
The responses and questions are different every time depending on your
responses. It sort of talks you down from that high stress level and lays
everything out in black and white by summarising what you have typed.
I also found it helped to focus thoughts to decide what action to take and also
focuses the mind on points to pray into.
I don't know if there is anything similar on the US apps store, it is called
pocket CBT and it was free.
The driving thingy might be difficult I can't drive and also in the UK, the
length of Britain is a mere 874 miles.
Land's End to John o' Groats is the traversal of the whole
length of the island of Great Britain between two extremities;
in the southwest and northeast. The traditional distance
by road is 874 miles (1,407 km)
Changing names sounds a good idea. I might just change my name to
"Iwilldothatforyou" then I will have loads of people willing to help me.
Um what do I do when stressed - go to bed get a good nights sleep, then live to
fight another day.
If that doesn't work I stomp about a bit throw my dummy out of the pram, cry give
myself a headache, take two aspirin then go to bed and get a good nights sleep,
wake up the next day and realise I could have done that before and missed out the
headache bit and saved a dummy.
Last year was way beyond stress, the word stress did not even cover it.
I found a really useful phone app about cognitive behaviour therapy which
really did work.
It starts by asking:-
Establishing the facts
1) What was happening just before your mood worsened, who else was there,
what were your thoughts. There is space to type up your comments.
Making sense of the situation
2) What was the most upsetting thing on your mind
what did that thought mean to you
how much did you believe that thought was true 0-100% scale
again you have to type up your comments.
Emotions
3) What emotion was strongly associated with the key thought in this
situation and you have to rate the strength of it.
Physical sensations
4) What physical sensation was most strongly associated with the key thought
and rate the strength of it.
Behaviour
5) What did you do in response to the way you were thinking and feeling,
after this how did you feel - rate the strength of your response.
It then summarises everything you have put and somehow seeing it all
typed up like that instead of thoughts running away with themselves and
out of control, really does help to get things into perspective.
It then comes up with the following:-
"so we have identified the thought that was most upsetting, this can be
known as the hot thought. We will now go on to establish the evidence for and
against the hot thought at the moment you believe this - and gives you a
percentage.
It then goes through your perceptions of the situation and evidence for and
against the possibility of events happening the way you fear, then there is
various other things to type up and comment on.
The responses and questions are different every time depending on your
responses. It sort of talks you down from that high stress level and lays
everything out in black and white by summarising what you have typed.
I also found it helped to focus thoughts to decide what action to take and also
focuses the mind on points to pray into.
I don't know if there is anything similar on the US apps store, it is called
pocket CBT and it was free.
length of Britain is a mere 874 miles.
Land's End to John o' Groats is the traversal of the whole
length of the island of Great Britain between two extremities;
in the southwest and northeast. The traditional distance
by road is 874 miles (1,407 km)
Changing names sounds a good idea. I might just change my name to
"Iwilldothatforyou" then I will have loads of people willing to help me.
Um what do I do when stressed - go to bed get a good nights sleep, then live to
fight another day.
If that doesn't work I stomp about a bit throw my dummy out of the pram, cry give
myself a headache, take two aspirin then go to bed and get a good nights sleep,
wake up the next day and realise I could have done that before and missed out the
headache bit and saved a dummy.
Last year was way beyond stress, the word stress did not even cover it.
I found a really useful phone app about cognitive behaviour therapy which
really did work.
It starts by asking:-
Establishing the facts
1) What was happening just before your mood worsened, who else was there,
what were your thoughts. There is space to type up your comments.
Making sense of the situation
2) What was the most upsetting thing on your mind
what did that thought mean to you
how much did you believe that thought was true 0-100% scale
again you have to type up your comments.
Emotions
3) What emotion was strongly associated with the key thought in this
situation and you have to rate the strength of it.
Physical sensations
4) What physical sensation was most strongly associated with the key thought
and rate the strength of it.
Behaviour
5) What did you do in response to the way you were thinking and feeling,
after this how did you feel - rate the strength of your response.
It then summarises everything you have put and somehow seeing it all
typed up like that instead of thoughts running away with themselves and
out of control, really does help to get things into perspective.
It then comes up with the following:-
"so we have identified the thought that was most upsetting, this can be
known as the hot thought. We will now go on to establish the evidence for and
against the hot thought at the moment you believe this - and gives you a
percentage.
It then goes through your perceptions of the situation and evidence for and
against the possibility of events happening the way you fear, then there is
various other things to type up and comment on.
The responses and questions are different every time depending on your
responses. It sort of talks you down from that high stress level and lays
everything out in black and white by summarising what you have typed.
I also found it helped to focus thoughts to decide what action to take and also
focuses the mind on points to pray into.
I don't know if there is anything similar on the US apps store, it is called
pocket CBT and it was free.