Coping

[Ryanna]

I get in these dips... really bad dips where my entire body does numb, my heart is ringing in my ears and my head is going a million miles per hour whilst the world is racing around me but for some reason I end up feeling so empty that I don’t care. I try so hard not to have life ending thoughts but it’s something I’ve had for years since being abused and it’s something I think that I’m never going to get rid of, I just have to cope with it... does anyone have any suggestions on what to do when feeling like this?

 

[Swift]

Hey and welcome.
Um, I guess I've never really been able to stop the thoughts.
The things that work best for me are distraction from them, and basically trying to live with them.
Fighting (but I can't kill myself because...) doesn't seem to work, it just adds fuel to the fire.
I have two types though - active (I really wanna kill myself right this second, how I'd do it, when I'd do it etc.) And passive.
The active is really quite dangerous. If I get in that kinda dip I know I need to see someone ASAP and just try to wait it out until then. Active rings my alarm bells. So get yourself safe, if it's like that.
Passive or intrusive drives me nuts because it's annoying, but there's no danger, just the intrusiveness and the bloody-minded persistence of the thoughts.
Are you safe atm?

 

[Ryanna]

Hey and welcome.
Um, I guess I've never really been able to stop the thoughts.
The things that work best...

Yeah I am safe, just more of the thoughts at the moment, thank you for your advice, I will try sitting with someone when I feel down as I struggle with that sometimes. Thank you, hope you’re okay