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Miss Grace · 26-03-2010, 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by control freak

How about putting in a safe place? Somewhere not immediately accessible (that way if you get an impulse to use it, finding it will take time and you might change your mind). You could put it in the bottom of a box, and fill the box with things to distract you. Like a DVD, CD, inspirational quotes or letters to yourself, photographs, goals you want to achieve. Really positive stuff. If you go through all of that perhaps when you reach the tool at the bottom, you wont want to use it anymore.

That's a really great idea. Thank you so much. I definitely wouldn't have thought of something like that but it's very helpful and positive. Hugs.

26-03-2010, 06:19 PM	#8
Miss Grace A Work in Progress RYL Sponsor Join Date: Mar 2010 I am currently:	Quote: Originally Posted by control freak How about putting in a safe place? Somewhere not immediately accessible (that way if you get an impulse to use it, finding it will take time and you might change your mind). You could put it in the bottom of a box, and fill the box with things to distract you. Like a DVD, CD, inspirational quotes or letters to yourself, photographs, goals you want to achieve. Really positive stuff. If you go through all of that perhaps when you reach the tool at the bottom, you wont want to use it anymore. That's a really great idea. Thank you so much. I definitely wouldn't have thought of something like that but it's very helpful and positive. Hugs.
	Mental illness is no different than any other disease. Just as the diabetic did not ask for diabetes, or the leukemic did not ask for cancer; we did not ask for this disease. But we must fight it just as we would fight any other medical diagnosis and accept that it is not our fault that we fell ill. We, too, can survive.