1000001 COPING STRATEGIES & DISTRACTIONS
Hey! So @j95 and I came up with a cool idea to have the longest list of coping mechanisms EVER.
Use this list when you're feeling down as a way to get through the day or night!
Help us add to it by giving us ONE SUGGESTION PER POST 🙂
My first coping mechanism suggestion is:
- SNUGGLING YOUR DOGS FOR 5 MINUTES. (Cos dogs are the best)
161. Read about a cool project that you want to do and design it in your head (this distracts me from literally anything). Here's what I'm reading up on making this weekend 🙂
@Bay52VU that's a super cute and useful idea! I also like @N1ghtW1ng's suggestion about categories relating to where you might be or what kind of self-care might be useful for you at the time.
1. Don't let others devalue your grief. Some people won't understand that a pet is like a family member, so don't worry if they don't understand, many others do!
2. Connect with others who have lost pets. I thought that maybe, J95, when you're ready you can make a thread in memory of Friday and others can share their pet memories. I think that your value of your pets makes you the perfect person for this (only when you are ready!!!!!) and it can help with the grieving process
3. Create a legacy for your pet. When I dog passed, we buries him in the yard and planted flowers in his memory on top. I care for the flowers and it makes me feel as though I'm caring for him still. Maybe you would like to create a space, make a printout and frame for your room, even plant a tree in honour of Friday.
4. Care for living pets. Your remaining companion will be feeling grief just like you, so remember that you have eachother and you can help eachother through.
And of course these are only little tips and ideas from others, so they arw not professional 'must do's. However I think that relating them to when my dog passed away, I think they could help possibly.
Here for you
Completing mind-boggling puzzles like sudoku, jigsaw puzzles, Rubiks cubes, and building Lego sets
152. Imagine how you'd design an app for the 1000001 COPING STRATEGIES & DISTRACTIONS thread.
What I'd want to do, if I knew what I was doing, is create an app that offers up the suggestions. You could ask it for a random activity, or put in some details like outside/inside, low/med/high exertion level, low/med/high focus to narrow down the selections. If there's certain activities you know you hate you can select "do not show again" and/or swipe it to the trash bin... While if there's certain activities you find really help or you enjoy them lots you can select "this one's a winner" and/or swipe it to the pin board. And if you want to make more search categories or disagree with how they've originally been categorised you can change those too.
@Bay52VU Oooo, yes! Hey, have you checked out The Toolbox? It may be similar to what you're talking about. I think R.O are still working on it to iron out the glitches but worth checking out 
@Myvo I dunno, I'm not sure that the Toolbox actually does what I'm meaning...
I meant something more like:
@Bay52VU that's a brilliant idea!
Maybe we should do it!?
You could just shake the phone and a new suggestion would pop up!
We could also have a bit where people can add new coping strategies!
#153
Help someone else make their brilliant idea work. (like maybe helping @Bay52VU get their idea off the ground 🙂
