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What calming techniques do you utilize in your everday life? (piefed.social)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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We talked stuff that works you up, how about things that you do to calm down? What techniques, activities, mantras, stims, etc. do you do to keep yourself comfortable and safe? Feel free to share what you'd like - and something kinda cool is that you might end up helping someone else down the line.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, my mom is so anti-medication she has surgeries and just winces through the recovery and it's absolutely miserable to watch. I once was in so much pain that I went into shock and if an amazing most lovely nurse on the face of this planet (I LOVE YOU SARBJIT!) hadn't helped me I am not sure what would have happened. I'm not even joking, it was bad. Really bad @_@!!

I am also taking some stuff right now that hasn't fixed everything, but I am way more functional right now than I was prior (cause it got bad for a while there too - was stuck in bed for a majority of the year and could barely walk). SO! I am pro-medication but as long as you and your provider can reach a mutual space with it and you feel like it's helping and not hurting your being =)! Cheers =)!!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

In total psychotropics in ASD is lesser prescribed, have a lesser effect in autistic population, but not for each patient. From other hand each pharmacologic substance is another substance, and each psychotherapist is another man, finally. If you take a therapy, you take side effects of it. There is calculation. And a harder life is not a better life, that's just what culture teaches.