Coping mechanisms

[Silver-winged Flyer]

Does anyone else have coping mechanisms for depression, excluding self-harm, that's not constructive or helpful but you keep doing them?
You don't have to say what they are if you don't want to.

 

[Chococat]

Yes I have a few and while I don't cut I tend to comfort eat especially sugary stuff which is not helpful at all as I am quite overweight and have high cholestorel (sp). I do other things but that is the main one. I'm starting with a psychologist next week so hopefully that will help me.

 

[miss-a]

Hi,

Welcome to the forum. The Bible says that the things we struggle with are "common to man, but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but ... will also make a way of escape." (1Cor 10:13 I believe he tells us this because we can tend to think we are the "only one," and this causes us to feel defective. He also tells us this because He wants us to know that He's made a way our, a way of escape.

I think all of us who have had depression have turned to things other than God at times, so don't think you are the only one. And know God has a way of escape for you, a plan for your healing. Pour your heart out to Him as much as you want. He wants to hear you and to comfort you. He loves you more than you can imagine.

Prayers for you,
a

 

[SplendidTree]

Eating junk food and sometimes overdoing it with gaming. Also oddly enough, sometimes I walk and like..probably too much if I am stressed.

 

[RunawayTrain]

Working out. Which is hard to do when it's very bad, but if the energy I have for self harm can be pushed into exercise I usually feel the same sense of relief when it's finished. Unfortunately the other side of the coin is that I also comfort eat.

One exhausts, the other stuffs, but both have the same feeling afterwards/during.

 

[aflower4God]

Does anyone else have coping mechanisms for depression, excluding self-harm, that's not constructive or helpful but you keep doing them?
You don't have to say what they are if you don't want to.

YES sadly I do, I sleep A LOT... It is my way of escaping the pain.
BTW A BIGGGGGGGGGGG WELCOME TO CF!!!!