This is not advice, just what worked for me—medication, specifically antidepressants, really helped me. Like you said your brain knows it's no biggie but your nervous system doesn't, and that's where medication or other more physical coping skills can help

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Fully accepting the pain and remembering to do it all the time…it’s still exhausting but it gets easier, and at least now I can function better around constant frustrations/the compounded benefit of having less energy being sucked away

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Same as #2 I’d say. Meds helped me get to a better baseline state. Sometimes on bad days I still have trouble regulating but now most of the time I have less of an extreme reaction to small stuff like that

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