So I'm in the middle of a huge overhaul of my life because all my friends did their best to support me and my BPD, but the fact of the matter is I share some really heavy stuff and take out my own violent self hatred of myself out on them, and obviously I can't go around beating people up verbally whenever I'm upset.
I obsessively seek validation from them to the point where it's overwhelmingly hard to resist. I can hardly distract my brain from demanding I bring my issues to other people, and I want to overcome this.

So I'm seeking activities that are efficient at distracting a BPD brain, at least until I come down from the episode and can see reason again. Someone suggested boxing/MMA to me, which I'm now considering heavily, but I think I need a varied arsenal of different distractions, since I also work a desk job. So! the TL;DR of all this is:

What do you do to distract your BPD brain in different situations? How well does it work for you?