Activities that reduce your symptoms to little/nil?

[HëllaBubz]

So - has anyone discovered an activity that significantly reduces your symptoms to the point of nil / almost nil?

For me, it's horse riding or Body Balance classes or a good hour of intensive yoga.
I get up to a week's reprieve of noticeable anxiety and symptoms from those activities.

Anyone else?

 

[ILoveLife]

Walking in the park, away from car sounds - I live in a big city so that's important!

Reading makes me forget I'm symptomatic, that is, if the symptoms are kind enough to allow me to focus.

Playing hide and seek with my cat.

Cheerful music lessens depression.

 

[HëllaBubz]

I love reading. I can thoroughly lose myself in a book on the train and end up a fair way from where I was supposed to get off/be picked up! :rolleyes::laugh:
I want to re-decorate my house so I have a few niches to hide in to allow areas to lose myself in.

 

[MyWillow]

Training my dogs. My focus narrows to an absolute pinpoint.

I struggle with reading novels or anything “relaxing”.

 

[HëllaBubz]

Training my dogs. My focus narrows to an absolute pinpoint.

I struggle with reading novels or anythi...

Huh. You're right, I do that too. Should probably train mine a bit more too haha.

 

[MyWillow]

Yeah I train for competition as well. I can be a right mess driving to the event. Step in the ring and everything changes. It’s addictive.

 

[Deleted member 42957]

Walking alone and singing out loud in the middle of nowhere :)

 

[Mach123]

I only can hide in those things a short time. All have a drug like effect that's temporary. I don't think that's bad it just is. Anything immediate, that demands my concentration. Then I start thinking about my performance again and if I did "well enough." Only sex really works and that lasts a couple days if I'm lucky.

 

[ladee]

Anything artsy. Creating with my hands and brain. Nature. Away from people and noise they make. Nature is very soothing for me. Reading, getting lost in a story. Playing with my dog. She makes me laugh. Laughing out loud.

 

[HëllaBubz]

Anything artsy. Creating with my hands and brain.

Yes, I paint too - I put a shout out and have found some artists who are producing works inspired by and addressing their trauma which has been really amazing. I have a whole heap of ideas now!

 

[FauxLiz]

I go to what I call my happy place it is a mostly deserted public fishing pier. I literally feel my body relax my shoulders drop and my breathin slow

 

[HëllaBubz]

This is where I go for a moment's silence.
There's 2 wild bee hives in old trees, the dog happily bounds through the bushes in search of rabbits, the ducks paddle smugly out of reach and no one goes here because they're too scared to go off the beaten path :)