How do you respond to negativity or confrontation? Or just a flat out bad day? I like to run away and isolate myself. I know it’s not good but it’s what I like to do. I try to separate myself from what ever is bothering me. So what do you do? Fight or flight?
You’d be good to develop a shell and not take things so seriously. What exactly went wrong?
I also find it helpful to be able to put things out of my mind and not think about things I dont like. It is kind of a newly acquired skill that has taken me a couple years to develop, but I’m starting to get the hang of it.
Those would be my two primary coping mechanisms. That and calling people stupid in my head.
Fight or flight? Watch me lift heavy ■■■■ while listening to Slipknot. lol
But about defense mechanisms, mine are intellectualization and sublimation. I step back from symptoms and see my experiences from an objective point of view and do not feel as much pain by looking at things through a certain lense. Like hallucinating at the party I was just at, it’s either think people really are saying these things or just be like “uh, I have been diagnosed with a psychotic disorder and therefore this ■■■■ is not going to get to me” or it’s going in a room and just putting my hands to my head and screaming.
One of these options works better for me than the other.
Ultimately I lift weights and find ways to release the tension. Usually involving me having an orgasm. What, I’m being honest. It’s sublimation, passionate sex is better than passionate stabbing with a knife.
@Nzbitnoff it depends on what you are fighting with or against? just negativity I would say do what you want. if this is something like a negative person I would say stay away from that person.?
Each situation would require a different response. Depending on what it is, sometimes it’s good to stand your ground and confront it, other times it’s better to remove yourself from the situation, lay low and avoid it.
Responding to negativity with positivity can help at times.
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I see the point your trying to make there but I wouldn’t really compare those two things. Stabbing and ■■■■■■■ are totally different things. I really doubt stabbing has any pleasure to it at all unless your a sadistic ■■■■.
And dude I hate hearing people say ■■■■ that they don’t actually say. It happens to me all the time. Probably the worst part of my symptoms cause it’s like two worlds colliding.
Stay strong buddy.