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How to calm down...?
Please, give me tips on how to calm down when you had a hard day and felt a lot of mental/emotional pressure and afterwards you can't deal with it in an ordinary way, like listening to music and relaxing... I feel right now like I'm about to explode into a million pieces and at the same time I have tight stomach and I feel like I wanna throw up. I HATE talking about my problems online esp. in a forum like this, but I just had a hard day today and I'm going nuts and out of my mind. I literally felt a few minutes like I wanna cease my existence at least for a moment so as not to feel anything. I feel awful, shaky... I feel helpless... I'm sorry to make a nut-case out of myself out here in the public forum and bother you guys, but it just is driving above my mind.... Oh it's so hard if you feel responsible for others' happiness and worrying about them and at the same time really not being able to change anything! 
(P.S. Please don't ask me to explain anything further, cause I WON'T... I just wanna get tips on how to feel better... thank you for understanding...)
a)tug one out
b)rip a bowl or 2
c)all of the above
been there and I know what you are feeling
i usually go for a long walk , or go sit by the lake and think
(or smoke a joint, not the solution but short term it can help)
i know solitude usually calms me down , sorry I can't be of more help , but talking can often help too
yeah, kotsy pretty much nailed it....
watch something funny on tv, while tugging one out, after ripping a bowl is what i'd recommend for like an absolutely gut wrenching day.
Hahaha, but she's a girl!
fixed to work for female stress...
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| Originally posted by me@t k@tie Hahaha, but she's a girl! |
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| Originally posted by DigDeep yeah, kotsy pretty much nailed it.... watch something funny on tv, while applying your pocket rocket in fifth gear, after ripping a bowl is what i'd recommend for like an absolutely gut wrenching day. |
That's better. 
I usually choose one of the below
-watch a mind occupying movie
-meditate
-long ass run that'll leave me too tired to think
-dunk head in cold water
-strangle my teddy bear
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| Originally posted by techead been there and I know what you are feeling i usually go for a long walk , or go sit by the lake and think (or smoke a joint, not the solution but short term it can help) i know solitude usually calms me down , sorry I can't be of more help , but talking can often help too |
Talk (with someone who will listen without interruption).
jerk your chicken.
anti-anxiety meds work nicely to. 
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| Originally posted by EvilTree I usually choose one of the below -watch a mind occupying movie -meditate -long ass run that'll leave me too tired to think -dunk head in cold water -strangle my teddy bear |
but thanx anyways...
as a girl... and someone with high anx who suffers from extreme anxiety attacks, these are somethings that help me.
-long walks at night (only if its safe)
-hot tea with honey and lemon
-a steaming shower
-a long nap
-having a friend who will listen to you vent
Try some power yoga. Its the best thing I've taken up recently
15 mins will do the trick; You meditate, breathe, stretch, build strength etc, all the while training youself to remain calm in times of stress.
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| Originally posted by MKpacha -hot tea with honey and lemon |
When ever i feel anxious and cant find a place for my self, I go for a good work out at the gym. If you are not a member of a gym, you can simply go outside for a run. Do anything that will get your heart rate up and some endorphins into your system.
Healthy body = Healthy mind
1) Exercise!!
2) Good food
3) Breathing exercises
4) REST.
If you run, doing a single sprint, just 30 seconds of intense exercise, it can clear your head for around 75minutes afterward.
I typed this article out of a Mens Health mag I have.
"According to a British study, after 22 men performed a single all-out cycling sprint (can be the same for running), researchers found that each participant experienced less tension, anger, and confusion for about 75 minutes afterward. Short periods of exhaustive exercise fatigue the mind, resetting it to its baseline, says study author Dominic Micklewright, Ph.D.,of the University of Essex."
So get out there and run your ass off for a bit! It works awesome. Even if you do a workout at the gym, you feel so much better afterward. Try it!
Exercise, either a hard workout with pumping music or a long quiet walk. Talk the ear off a friend for as long as you need. Have tea and just lie down in a quiet place and BREATHE...
it's funny how most people recommended some sort of exercise
(which is what I was going to suggest)
but since that is so popular I will change up the advice and recommend you open up that "My Received Files" folder and look at some funny pictures people sent you
I know for myself I open that up every few months and always laugh at what I have received or what pictures I am in!
i actually read and post on TA to calm down. and surf the net. find cool stuff. read neat things. watch funny videos.
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| Originally posted by StereoPrincess i actually read and post on TA to calm down. |
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| Originally posted by kotsy a)tug one out |
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| Originally posted by Playa24_7 So get out there and run your ass off for a bit! It works awesome. Even if you do a workout at the gym, you feel so much better afterward. Try it! |
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| Originally posted by rabbitjoker Talk (with someone who will listen without interruption). |
Thank you very much to all of you my dear people who took the time to help me out by offering suggestions I feel a little bit better already, though the issue is still bugging me. I tried the cold shower, and it was ok, when you turn the water completely cold it shocks you and you have to breather hard and deep to be able to take it. Funny how something that is otherwise unbearable when you are feeling normal (cold shower) suddenly becomes different when you're really tensed up and upset.
I will probably try exercize too, I've been wanting to do that a long time, although I don't really know a cheap club that I could go to right now. I feel like exercize has more of a preventative role though, like if you do it regularly then you won't get frustrated and tense so much... I remember, once when I was visiting back home I signed up for an aerobics class (cause you could just sign up and pay for one lesson only, didn't have to have club membership) and I was almost ready to faint after the first fifteen minutes. But then, after the hour was over, even though I felt a little bit sore, it just felt soooo much better! It lifted my mood up. Gotta try that out some more, only if I could figure out where...
As regarding the talk... it's a good idea and I would love to but I don't have any friend that I could talk with about that issue which is seriously bothering me... but maybe if I really sit down and talk to and explain to the person (my friend) who's unwantingly helping to cause me this stress and frustration (though I guess he doesn't do it on purpose) and I hope that if I really explain my feelings and stance and whatnot to him, he'll understand and realize it and not act so foolishly so as to distress me again... he has these mood swings which are causing him to act in a certain specific self-distructive manner when he's distressed (and he says he becomes distressed when we quarrel which unfortunately like almost happened today), and then it distreses me too, cause I start to worry, that's why I felt like I was gonna go out of my mind today, it's just crazy how one person's upset can spill over to your own self eventually...
well... I don't know if I make sense... but again, THANK YOU very much to all of you who took the time to come out and help me I don't know what else to say... just Thank You... for being nice and non-judgemental... and of course I'll try to look into the suggestions you all mentioned...
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