What helps you cope?

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I have anxiety, ptsd, and a 50/50 chance of depression and i need to help cope with them. What are since things you guys do to help cope with anxiety, ptsd, and depression?

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Yoga! I suffer with depression since im 15 and yoga saved my life its with u in all walks of lifes ups n dwns n a grt life tool and skill xx

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I have anxiety and depression. Other than medication the things that help most are exercise 6 days a week (I enjoy running-there really is a runner's high!) and a good nights sleep every night.  If you aren't getting an adequate amount of sleep every night it can definitely exacerbate the issues. Good idea to take a sleeping pill if you have insomnia from anxiety or PTSD. For a while I was on a sleeping pill but lately I've had less trouble getting to sleep. Another thing that helps is meditation or yoga while listening to recordings of nature or better yet go for a walk with a friend through the woods, on a beach, or in a park. Basically it comes down to sleep, exercise, outdoors, and just making sure you take a little time for yourself everyday. That's what has helped me the most! Hope this helped a little bit!

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Talking to my therapist helps me a lot. Also I have horses, and I find that no matter how shitty I feel or how awful my day was they make me feel great.

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I see a case worker and go to a support group once a week. Also weed helps me through my depression...my pills help me through my manic episodes

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Gosh, this makes me feel so counterproductive as I play video games as a distraction 😔

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I'm an absolute animal lover, and I have 5 pets. If I'm at home or in a place with animals, I'll surround myself with animals. If I'm not in a place with animals, I'll look up pictures of animals, look at pictures of my pets, or think of animals. It really calms me down. But on the minus side, I get depressive episodes if someone mentions animal torture, and that certainly doesn't help.

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I'm doing some really good meditation tracks from a fertilty website (catching rainbows). It's helping me sleep better and stay calm / deal with us starting ivf soon.  I also find yoga helps :)

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A 50/50 chance of depression? Anxiety and PTSD usually stem from some form of depression?
It does take years to truly diagnose depression or another mental illness but anxiety is a general diagnoses made off the more immediate symptoms you are having.

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