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tools:

my practice

i go to my emergency plan for multiple reasons. an emergency plan gives me space to manage my health according to my needs. i use tools to manage my health, whether in maintance or emergency plan.

 

included below is a tab for awareness. those are my yellow and red flags that signal i need to go to some level of emergency plan.  my emergency plan ranges from dont drive to prn pharmaceutical pause.

the tabs below are my categories of need and what i practice w discipline and wo negotiation:

yellow flags:

  • condition of my nails and cuticles

  • how i'm able to eat/nutrition (what i'm able to eat-choch chips/candy)

  • flash in my chest w lived experience or a memory

  • sleeping less than 4hr/night more than 4 days/wk, sweating when i sleep

  • missing alarms / alarms w no labels

  • overwhelm (leads to anger)

  • anger (getting mad at my animals, people i love)

  • wanting to break shit

  • language: swearing

  • volume: getting loud

  • limited access to audio, video, chat on virtual meetings

  • doing nothing for multiple weeks

  • need for self harm

red flags:

  • feeling like i hit my head following a flash in my chest

  • impulse control (physically breaking shit including self/self harm)

  • fkn hating my closest loved ones

  • mania after an extended stretch of sleeping less than 4 hrs/night more than 4 days/wk

  • need to bleed

  • doing nothing for multiple months

  • increased intensity of suicide immediately following lift in intensity of suicide (piggyback)

  • radical acceptance of disability

  • operating in lasts

  • inability to cry

  • ears ringing  with crown of head tingling

  • metal clanking in my head
  • silence
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