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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Friday" data-source="post: 1698516" data-attributes="member: 27208">Exercise is my best tool.When my body doesn’t have 10-15 hours of daily exercise in me? Like I’m sick/injured? Things can go pretty sideways. My normal days -for most of my adult life- are 10ish hours of exercise. 15+ are super fun days. (Meant BOTH literally and sarcastically ;) If I’m moving from the moment I get up until I go to sleep? I’m either having a wicked fun time, or I’m having a really difficult time...and occasionally both at the same time). 4 hours is something of a bare minimum/ when I’m doing very very well, otherwise. I really don’t understand how people do 20 minutes out of 18 hours awake. Not that I don’t have movie marathons, or play video games for 3 days straight until my eyes are (almost ;) bleeding, or spend 90% of the day glued to a book desperately cramming/researching (or lost in a story). But I have to be very careful with those days. They’re fun little diversions, I suppose in the way that some people do skiing weekends, or a Sunday hike. But I’m going to be a bit touchy, emotional, and/or prone to overreact. It’s not that I haven’t tried -or been forced into, from time to time- a sedentary life... it’s that I’m simply not wired for it. Sensory tricks are another mainstay. Hot&cold showers, sauna&rolling in snow, cold drinks on a hot day or in a hot shower & vice versa. Scents. Music. Lighting. Tastes. The fabrics against my skin. Weightlessness (Swimming is more accessible than free fall, but if you’ve got access to a plane, trapeze, or rappelling gear? <sneaky> I have a dream of going to bed like Lara Croft harnessed up in her PJs in free fall. It may never happen, logistically, but hot damn would that be aweeeesome). Weight/heft/pressure (from pushing against a wall, to a heavy blanket, to being held, to compression gear, to massage... f*ck I miss weekly or biweekly massage! Most of my insurance companies have covered it as a straight $20 outpatient copay, a couple at 10%-20%. Man oh man, that’s the cost of coffee at Starbucks!)). Tons and tons of things that engage the senses. Chemical Distancing Whether we’re talking scotch & cigars, or benzos // over the counter @ my own discretion, or closely monitored by a doctor, matters not so much. It’s a bit of breathing space.More, for sure, but these are my Top3</blockquote>

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