Crisis Resolution Using The "distract" Technique (Self Developed)

[Ollieclews]

Hello everyone, as part of my recovery I have been working on ways to aid my recovery. I have developed my own way of dealing with a crisis. I call it the DISTRACT Technique and I have found when I'm in crisis it works for me and I want to share it with everyone in hope that it can help others!

Distract – Try your best to distract yourself from any negative thoughts/feelings.

Inform – Inform someone of your crisis and ask for support (CPN, Social Worker, Key Worker, GP, Samaritans)

Stay Safe – Now you have distracted and informed its important that you stay safe, try and be around someone maybe?

Think – Try and think about all of the positive things in your life and focus on them

Relax – Take deep breaths, have a nice hot bath, meditate. Do whatever relaxes you the most.

Action Plan – What are you going to do after your crisis? How can you avoid another one? What are you looking forward to?

Continue – Try your best to continue with your daily routine, go to the shops and try to continue as normal

Treat Yourself – You’ve had a rough time, now your out of your crisis do something nice and treat yourself.

I would love to hear any feedback people have about it! And also I just want to let you all know that I have created this from scratch and its not based from anything already out there (That I know of!) Also It would be great if people wanna use/share this too!

Thanks,

Ollie

xxx

[Myla]

Oooh I like this Ollie . Thanks for sharing. I do most of these activities (though am crap at treating self!) but it's great to have a way to remember them. Glad it works for you xx

[berenger]

a really good idea ollie, it makes lots of sense. Its similar to what i've been told in dbt.

[JasmineRose]

It is my experience that distraction never helps you be with difficult feelings and learn to manage them safely. It's a short term quick fix that doesn't fix anything.

[Ollieclews]

Thanks for your feedback guys!

And I understand where your coming from Jasmine but different things work for different people and its important to remember that during a crisis its important to find a "quick fix" often or peoples safety.

:)

[manja.]

Awesome, Ollie! Could I share it on my blog please?

[Ollieclews]

Thanks Hun, of course you can!

xxx

[manja.]

Cool. Or if you blog it I can re-blog Whatever suits you best.

I will not do it straight away, as I try to space out my blog posts, but gonna mark this for the right time. thanks Ollie xxx

[Jess1090]

It is my experience that distraction never helps you be with difficult feelings and learn to manage them safely. It's a short term quick fix that doesn't fix anything.

I have panic attacks and I have had to find a way to cope with them because if I'm alone with my children then I have to breathe and calm down so I think what Ollie has done is real fine for the crisis that catch you quickly. If I can't sleep sometimes I can go in to a crisis and again I think it is a short term thing to deal with that time only. Well done Ollie I think you've done a great job putting this together.