We talked stuff that works you up, how about things that you do to calm down? What techniques, activities, mantras, stims, etc. do you do to keep yourself comfortable and safe? Feel free to share what you’d like - and something kinda cool is that you might end up helping someone else down the line.
Depends, but if it’s a panic spiral I’ll try to make myself as big as possible for a moment. It’s a nice stretch but also helps reign in my brain.
I freakin’ hate panic spiraling because it seems like by that point nothing I do will actually calm me down and it takes me like a looonnnggggg time to decompress from it. And by that I mean I can get my booty-bin outta the space of pain, I can do all the stuff I love on the face of this Earth and it’ll still be riding me until like…5-10 hours after the fact. Idk if this is normal, but for sure it’s a thing for me.