CognitiveBehavioralDuctTape

good time for this module I feel like complete garbage. Imma go with pros and cons I think. The pros of obeying my sleep hygiene schedule right this second are numerous and the cons are few. Similarly, doing dumb shit has very few upsides especially in the long term. See you all when I wake up.

edit: lol forgot to even include the wiki page.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/50139532

ok been going for a few weeks and have at least a few commenters and some good updooting. If you'd like to get more involved and get your name on the Contributors Page here's some ideas:

Help me with the content

• Help make better writeups for the skills. If you've done CBT / DBT before and there was a skill you were particularly good at or had success with in a group teachback exercise, please share! It's not a dealbreaker but I am trying to keep the reading level low to keep things more accessible. In school I was taught to write patient education material at about a fifth grade reading level because it's the US average. It also helps people whose first language is not English.

• Help me make or find good creative commons content, especially elsewhere in fedi like peertube. I'm also absolutely excited to see any memes or shitposts anybody wants to share. Personally I do a lot of my own learning through shitposting and consider it a form of creative art!

Help me with the community

• Share the FUCK outta everything. Crosspost anything you want. This is dbzer0, download a car.

• This isn't big enough that I really need mods yet, but if I'm actually successful at this I probably will, so lmk if you're interested.

Help me with the tech stuff

• I recently made a Mood-Log PWA to accompany this project that will output your week as a series of colored squares that you can share here (group discussion of mood logging is a common but optional part of mental health support groups). There's also a longer form it can spit out that you could text or email to your therapist or psychiatrist or just paste into a markdown note app. That said I kinda vibes-coded most of this with the help of an llm and my main security feature is storing all of your data completely locally. I would actually really love someone to review it and make sure I actually did a good enough job or maybe clean up the code a little.

• The bot didn't post on sunday and idk why or whether or not it will this sunday. If you know why or have a better idea for Siggy, lmk.

Next week is Distress Tolerance so stay tuned!

uuuuuuh. I'll probably think of other stuff after I post this. But thanks for reading!

IDK why the scheduler bot didn't go off but this week's theme is Radical Acceptance (and turning the mind which is basically just brute forcing that shit until you're good at it).

I'm just gonna roll the mood long post into this one because I'm tired. I'm trying to make sharing it wordle style ⋆˙⟡A Thing✧˖°. but I don't actually know enough about programming to make a mood logger app with that feature. Here's my week though:

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My insight for the week is that I suck at remembering to log my mood.

If anybody wants to help me with the tech end of this it would be much appreciated.

The moral of the story is, you can accept the existence of something but still hate it.

Any other good ideas?

Wiki page for reference

Instance agnostic link: !DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I posted that DIY mental health resources folder but tbh it's probably just better as a community. I picked dbzero honestly mostly because it has a wiki function but also it has a pretty strong neurodiverse community. This is a more specifically skill-based group than just a general support group (although that's not discouraged). I just think it's an area that most support communities don't offer and that I think people could use.

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!DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Instance agnostic link: !DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I posted that DIY mental health resources folder but tbh it's probably just better as a community. I picked dbzero honestly mostly because it has a wiki function but also it has a pretty strong neurodiverse community. This is a more specifically skill-based group than just a general support group (although that's not discouraged). I just think it's an area that most support communities don't offer and that I think people could use.

Wiki | Matrix

i started this space because i wanted something a little more structured than most online support groups and rooted in real-life coping tools—but still chill and decentralized. this isn’t therapy, and it’s not medical advice. it’s just a peer space to share specific skills that have helped, and maybe learn a few new ones along the way.

for context: i am a mental health professional, but i’m not your therapist. i’m not here in any official or clinical capacity—this is a volunteer project, a mutual aid effort to make skills more accessible. i’ve received a lot of therapy personally, and while I don't provide a lot of talk therapy at work, I've definitely seen what lack of access does to people, so I just wanted to give something back to the community.

My Current Plan

• weekly-ish posts about one specific skill at a time, mostly drawn from DBT, CBT, WRAP, and similar approaches

• if you want, you can respond with something that helped you, or drop a quick snippet from your diary card or mood tracker (like “i felt X and realized it was connected to Y”)

• this isn’t a course or a step-by-step system. there is a suggested order on the wiki, if you want a place to start—but the whole point is that you get to set your own pace and focus on what’s most relevant to you

• this isn’t a crisis space (see the wiki for how to find support if you’re in danger), and it’s not a replacement for therapy. but if you’re looking for practical tools, shared experiences, and mutual support—welcome.

a few other notes...

• suggestions on how to make this space better are very welcome. when i do teach these kinds of skills professionally, it’s usually 1:1—so doing it asynchronously and in a community format is new to me.

• i’m okay with tech stuff but still struggling with stuff like getting a bot working. probably going to just use a scheduler service for now. if you’re into that kind of thing and want to help, let me know.

• i’m also building a resource archive of links (so that nothing is hosted here) so we can keep track of useful worksheets, videos, etc. if there’s a piece of media that helped you understand a skill, feel free to share it. i’ll try to link to it on the relevant wiki page. and if you ever find a broken link, dm me and i’ll fix it.

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thanks for being here.