Tag: Disruption Methods
Coping skills that serve as disruption methods are typically used to disrupt negative impulses or actions. They involve deliberately interrupting thoughts and behaviors that are negative and that could become dangerous including thoughts that are hopeless, despondent, melancholy, discouraging, pessimistic, self-harmful, suicidal, homicidal, angry or resentful. Such thoughts are typically very distressing and can be very dangerous. It is important to disrupt them and change them to thoughts and behaviors that can restore reasonableness, calmness, hopefulness and reconsideration. Here are the coping skills in this app that can help a person achieve that.
Overlook It Skill
Urge Control Skill
No matter how strong the urge, the actual act of self-harming is a choice and you can always do something different: