When I can’t sleep, I turn around and sleep “upside down” - moving my pillows to where my feet were beforehand, and my feet to where my head was beforehand - and I stick with that for a week or so. It gives me a week or so without insomnia and then wears off, so I have to turn myself back around for the next 7-12 day period.
Admittedly this could just be a me thing, but let’s put our faith in this method and let the power of placebo effect take hold. Boom, minor bouts of sleeplessness are cured.
What are your own examples of this?
Rapid eye movement and looking at things, mentally noting them, acknowledge sounds and smells can help regulate moments of anxiety.
Standard practice for interrupting an anxiety attack is to name 5 things you can see, 4things you can hear, 3 things you can smell, 2 things you can touch and 1 thing you can taste. I’ve never used it myself but I’ve used it to de-escalate people who are having a flipout
I’ve never understood that last one. Assuming I am otherwise physically healthy and don’t have any foreign objects in my mouth, I can’t really taste anything but neutrality. Technically I can probably taste saliva, but I think my brain filters that out and noting it doesn’t seem like it would help anyway.
Unless I’m misinterpreting and I’m supposed to go lick something during a panic attack. I know I’ve read that biting into a lemon can help.
Yeah this one was weird to hear about, but if i think about it it’s something I do myself, so i guess it really does work.
Psychologists use EMDR therapy based on activating each hemisphere of the brain in alternating fashion