Rules For When Your Mind Gets Too Loud

What to do when life gets too overwhelming

1. Play upbeat music in your head

2. Count random things (your breathing, the walls etc.)

3. Go into you head; close your mind (only some people are able to do)

4. Pretend you are someone else for a while (live a fary tale)

5. Make up a story/daydream (look at something and think this is an ancient artifact that came from…)

6. Look away, out the window, or at something that makes you feel calm

7. Scream (in private; you don’t want to scare someone)

8. Clench your jaw/bite your lips or tongue

9. Exercise (run, jog, swim, etc.)

10. Open a mental bottle, and let the whole ‘thing’ go into the bottle, later open the bottle and deal with it alone (never leave a bottle closed-it will leave you feeling worse than if you release it)

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