Remember that stress doesn’t come from what’s going on in your life. It comes from your thoughts about what’s going on in your life.

These skills aren’t here to make your painful emotions go away. Allowing yourself to feel emotional pain as it happens is necessary in order to avoid suffering. Instead, distress tolerance skills exist in an effort to make feeling emotional pain a bit more bearable as the situation takes its natural course. One of these skills is to Distract. Below is a list of distractions you can utilize either on your phone or through the internet.  

• Mix : random website generator
• This is Sand : create sand art
• Impulse Brain Training (iOS)
• browse TikTok 
• Clash Royale
• Plants Vs. Zombies 2
• Plato : many free games

• Weavesilk : interactive art
• MapCrunch : random street views
• Neonflames : draw a nebula
• Virtual Piano
• Draw a Stickman : create a story
• Akinator : he knows everything, test him!
• Little Alchemy : science!
• Jigidi : online jigsaw puzzles
• Free Tetris
• 2048 : play the game
• Online Sudoku
• Zoo webcams : see animals live!