How to Use Numbing Strategies to Survive Adverse Effects

There's a spectrum or a continuum when we talk about numbing strategies. Anything that's a distraction to us can be a numbing agent. And so I think some of it is giving yourself compassion to know that what you're doing is normal. If you take away a coping strategy, you have to deal with whatever that was that you were using it for and replace it with something more beneficial.