What hobby or hobbies have you picked up to avoid therapy

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1. Scotch

2. Gym

3. I’m actually not totally sure what is meant by your question. Is it: In lieu of therapy how else have you found a way to become centered? or is it: in an effort to completely avoid the topic of therapy how have you distracted yourself?

4. Therapy was the best decision my mother ever strong armed me into after we had a stillbirth this year. I say this as a 38 year old man and father/guardian of 4.

5. Beating the living shit out of inferior boxers and trash talking people on video games

6. Drinking

7. Watching Anime and learning Japanese going to the gym, meditating, reading.

8. Working out most recently. Feeling much better 2 weeks in. Just chugging this weight gainer mix and working out at home. Keeps me in a good mood and I can already feel myself getting stronger I can do like 2x as many reps. It really helps your outlook on yourself simply by jusy proving to yourself that you can lift the thing a bunch.

9. Combat sports

10. When you actually really need the therapy then there’s no hobby that could help you/ replace therapy

11. I give OTHER people advice on Reddit to avoid facing my own problems… FTW?

12. Daily cardio, 15 mins in the gym every other day, learning golf atm

13. I don’t game to avoid therapy, but I get out of gaming what therapy is designed to do (for non-traumatic events): give clarity of mind and perspective.

14. Clay pigeon shooting.

15. Gardening & being a DM in D&D

    The gardening literally gives me control over life and in a fun and tasty way (I grow food)

    The D&D has currently given me a new group of friends who are kind and wonderful people AND a place to put out stories and let them interact with / break them

16. BJJ

17. Riding motorcycles and indulging my anger as a source of energy and motivation to prove them all wrong…or die in the attempt.

18. Depends on what therapy you’re hoping to avoid; for example, I am avoiding therapy for my ADHD. This means I smoke copious amounts of weed, exercise, smoke lots more then play video games. Any time I have before going to work I’m sure to get extra faded. So I self medicate, I guess.

    That being said, I really like being in therapy. It’s usually a ‘why didn’t I do this before’ sort of thing. I should restart my meds/therapy. Truth is, I’m not happy avoiding therapy, and I know it. Damn bruh.