It's called a grounding exercise." Now that he'd started he couldn't shut up. "One of the methods called for different numbers like naming five things you can see and two things you can smell, but I could never remember the number. It made me more frustrated and escalated the symptoms. It was fine if someone was there to walk me through, but those were rare occasions. I needed something I could do alone. Three was an easy number to remember, and then I simply went through the senses I noticed as I'd regain my grip on the present."
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