How Do You Avoid The Triggers When Everything Is Trigger!?

[Stacy]

This is gonna be a tough couple days. I have the next three days off so I'll be home alone. Its gonna make things difficult. Actually tuesday most of the day I'll be working at my second job but today and tomorrow anyway will be hard. So here's my game plan:

First of all I've found that when I occupy myself with other things I tend not to DD. So I'm writing myself out a specific schedule, as detailed as I can make it, and make sure that every second of my time is accounted for so I won't have much time to worry about DDs. Now that being said a schedule only works if I actually stick to it. So we'll see how that goes. I have a paper to write so that should occupy my time plus this house is a train wreck so it needs a thorough cleaning. Worse comes to worse I'll go visit my parents. Being around other people tends to help a lot. I haven't been over there in a while anyway.

In researching things to try to control MD one big thing that I've seen is to identify what your triggers are and try to avoid them. This isn't so easy for me because I have a lot of triggers. They're almost impossible to avoid. Since my alter-ego is a singer/actress listening to music and watching tv is a big trigger. On the other hand I can't stand silence so I either need to be listening to music or have the tv on in the background. So thats kind of a catch-22. And there is a lot of just everyday things that are triggers. Walking my dog, taking a shower, doing housework (although generally more DD ended up getting done than housework). But I'm still feeling good about quitting so hopefully all of my positive feelings will help keep the DDs at bay.

[otakugirl]

I guess it's mainly on self control but I understand its so hard. My alter-ego is also a singer to so songs trigger it for me. Even when I try so hard I end up finding myself doing it. I guess we just got to hav self control.

Good Luck!

[Stacy]

Gaah! I knew this was gonna be hard! Okay so I'm having a borderline anxiety attack right now because my urge to DD is so bad. My chest is tightening all up and I just wanna cry. I'm gonna go over to my parent's house so I have someone real to talk to.