Coping Box

[Former-Member]

Love this idea, this thread
Thank you for creating it
Gonna decorate a bog today 🙂

[PeppiPatty]

thankyou @Crazy_Bug_Lady for this thread. 

Can I take your Harry Potter Dvds out @MoonGal....I'm not happy.

I want to be positive. A tear fell down my right cheek. Another one is falling down. I just posted a thread on lived experience forum. I can't bear to tell you what it's called but it in.....my experiences and stories.

I get so much care here

PP

[Former-Member]

@PeppiPatty, so sorry to hear about your childhood friend,, i tried to respond on your other thread but it was removed & I can't post ANYTHING on that thread now, weird. I put a link there for COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS VICTORIA who have some excellent reads on Grief, how to help etc You can google it.

Please be gentle with yourself 💕

[PeppiPatty]

DEarest @Former-Member

Thanks, I need to send it again but all is good, I've written to Frog in the Pond and it was illegible writing ...... 

I just feel weird.....you know you need to get trhough the days but there's this feeling of sad whatever you do.....

[Former-Member]

Imagine being an astronemer, daily examining the stars every night, little flickering diamond lights, some brighter than others, the brighter ones being the guideposts to help find the universe. one of those flickering diamond lights has gone out for you, it takes a while to adjust to the hole in the sky.
❤❤❤

[Former-Member]

I'll add white jelly beans! 😊

[utopia]

I'd add some comedy dvd's like
* Ab Fab
*The Vicar of Dibley
* Mrs Browns Boys

& my super soft dressing gown - so warm.
Really something soft to cuddle or stroke.

& potato chips. Need the crunch sensation. & the salt.

[BlueBells]

Lots of hugs, Peppi. Warm soft hugs 🙂

I'm hooked on You've Got Mail at the moment, it is just a plain old "feel good" movie, and I really need that lately.

[Ffm48]

I have just stumbled across this beautiful thread and realised that I have one without having realised it.

I have a rear vision mirror that pops up when I feel down. A rear vision mirror that shows me the dark places I've been and that those places are so far behind me and I know I won't be going there again.

There is the box with all the theatre and concert tickets. A box full of memories of pure enjoyment and I can revel in the memory.

Then there is the box with all the tickets still to come; performances to look forward to.

Right on top of the box is a reminder to sing ... and I do ... I sing all the depression out of my system.

[dash]

Hello, that is a useful tool and find it great, in mine I also have what is known as the naughty coping things, like written words of my dark days, what and why reasons for SH, why I had so much hate, but in there are the happy endings, like finding the right help, taking myself off a shit load of heavy Narcotic drugs that were a bandaid for my issues, talking through the problems and writing a journal each day was great thearpy, that is in my coping box.

HOw we choose to cope with our illness is different for everyone, my coping box is locked and in the past, well 90% of it. Sure everything never goes away all together but it can be put in a box. Hope you are continuing to be well