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I learned, through therapy, how to distract myself when I'm extremely upset. Things like counting all the red books in the bookcase, or trying to pick separate instruments out of orchestra music.
You know those things that you worry about but you can't do anything about them? I try to throw those worries out. I used to do it symbolically, like writing them on slips of paper and burning them. Now I can toss them aside without really having to think about it (unless things are extraordinarily bad).
There are probably many many ways in which each of us copes that we don't even realize. I don't understand fully how I do it, although it has a lot to do with re-centering myself.
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