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AesopWaits
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Smartphone flashcard I made for bad anxiety days

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Just a flashcard i made to keep on my phone for when im having a bad day/panic attacks. I find that its sometimes easier to have it written for me in black and white than to remember these things when my brain is running a million miles. Hopefully it can help some others the way its been helping me! 
FYI:

3-5 is about breathing, 3 seconds in 5 seconds out

BYOBF = Be Your Own Best Friend, about looking at my illness from a place of compassion rather than judgement

EDIT: spelling

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Re: Smartphone flashcard I made for bad anxiety days

@AesopWaits  Hey AesopWaits hope you are doing well this morning. What a kind thing for you to do. To share this with the SANE family. Much appreciated. greenpea xxx

Re: Smartphone flashcard I made for bad anxiety days

thanks @AesopWaits 

Re: Smartphone flashcard I made for bad anxiety days

This is great @AesopWaits ! thanks for sharing 😊 I love this example of ways you can use your phones to help - like some of the apps out there for breathing or maybe you make sure you follow a lot of positive anxiety content on social media for instance.

 

Are there any other tips around how you use your phone to be helpful to you when having hard times?

Re: Smartphone flashcard I made for bad anxiety days

Hi Lauz!

thanks for the response, i actually think my phone has sort of become my go to for breaking negative thought patterns and positive reinforcements.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfcAVejslrU - i have this video and song saved to my phone as i find it really calming and regularly use the song for meditation/mindfulness practice.

Just calming music in general (whatever that may be to you, we're all different) sometimes my calming music can be pretty aggressive heavy metal, sometimes more downtempo/ambient stuff.

Crosswords and solitaire games give me a welcome distraction from my negative thought patterns and can help to "reset" when in tough situations.

Great question! interested to see if anyone else has some handy smartphone strats

 

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