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SteelMaiden
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03 Mar 2007, 3:13 pm

I was wondering if anyone knew about increasing mental strength?
I'm great at managing pain... I can have my finger bent back and not flinch. When someone hurts me, I don't cry or whine that it hurts, I sock 'em back.
I can motivate myself to concentrate on something and do focussed work for hours, sometimes!

But I still have meltdowns sometimes, and I still panic.

Does anyone know how I can get rid of these things?

Oh, and how to get rid of my medication... I'm relying on it too much. :(


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03 Mar 2007, 3:18 pm

Perhaps breathing excercises. Not talking about straight out meditation, as I never got much out of it, but the breathing part. When a meltdown occurs, start counting your breaths and thinking "breathe in. breath out". Try to control the breaths. Pretty soon, you are calmed down because you are no longer thinking about the thing stressing you. Its a halfway meditation with out trying to get some spiritual oneness.



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03 Mar 2007, 6:05 pm

i have a pretty high tolerance to pain if something extremely painful sneaks up on me, but if i know its comming and very painful i pretty much turn into a baby


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04 Mar 2007, 1:47 pm

Juggernaut wrote:
Perhaps breathing excercises. Not talking about straight out meditation, as I never got much out of it, but the breathing part. When a meltdown occurs, start counting your breaths and thinking "breathe in. breath out". Try to control the breaths. Pretty soon, you are calmed down because you are no longer thinking about the thing stressing you. Its a halfway meditation with out trying to get some spiritual oneness.


Yes, I do remember that from a long time ago. You have just reminded me! Thanks. :)


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