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Grounding Box

When you want support through something scary or rough, and help pulling yourself together and getting through, this is the place.
Forum rules
We ask that users looking for general, ongoing emotional support post in this area of the boards, and that you use this space to both ask for, give and receive that support primarily from each other, rather than from our staff and volunteers. As a staff, we simply are often too overextended with all we need to do in running the organization and its services to do that for extended periods of time, and one of our main aims of our community at the boards has always been to facilitate peers to better be there for each other.

Users often report that they have no in-person peers they can talk to or seek support from: we want this to be a space for online peer support and somewhere everyone can get some practice asking for, getting and giving support so that doing it with people in your lives feels more doable.

Please remember that neither staff, volunteers nor your fellow users can provide or replace mental healthcare when that is something you need. Users struggling with issues like anxiety, depression, abuse or physical health issues are strongly encouraged to seek out qualified, in-person help with those issues in addition to peer or staff support.
Sam W
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Grounding Box

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For those who may not know, a grounding box is like a little tool-kit for folks who experience anxiety, panic, or other difficult emotions. It essentially works to comfort, ground, and distract you. You can find ideas for making you're own here:
http://anxiety-depression-recovery.tumb ... box-thingy
But I also thought it could be interesting, if anyone else has used these, to hear what y'all include in yours.

I've so far got:
-mini-crossword book
-little lotion samplers
-stuffed animal
-hot cocoa packet
And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow/with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go/turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain/and like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again.