hello everyone, i just wanted to share this small triumph that feels HUGE for me. i got really triggered at work today and immediately started feeling suicidal and googling dark suicidal shit. i realized that wasn’t what i should be doing and texted my therapist instead, who reminded me that i have skills and that i know how to use them. so i deleted that tab and instead googled “square breathing gif” and found one i liked, then practiced that. took a break to eat lunch as it was after 3, did some more square breathing, and felt okay. i was still getting hot years in my eyes i was trying to blink away, but my intense suicidal urge had passed, and now four hours later i’m feeling almost back to normal (which is a pretty okay place for me). just wanted to share this success, sometimes it really is the little things, and like they say in dbt it’s about not making the situation worse, which i did! the situation is the same as before being triggered :)