What do you do when you’re emotionally spent?

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  • KosmosKitten
    KosmosKitten Posts: 10,476 Member
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    iMago wrote: »
    manic depressive apartment cleaning

    Preferably at 2AM.
  • LyndaBSS
    LyndaBSS Posts: 6,964 Member
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    I have a good cry and hug my dogs
    🐶🐶
  • melissawill2017
    melissawill2017 Posts: 1,131 Member
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    Turn on some hardcore, adrenaline pumping music & sing/scream to the top of my lungs!!
  • Reckoner68
    Reckoner68 Posts: 2,139 Member
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    melissawill2017 wrote: »
    Turn on some hardcore, adrenaline pumping music & sing/scream to the top of my lungs!!

    Aggretsuko
  • Tinydancer106
    Tinydancer106 Posts: 3,678 Member
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    If walking or running outside is not an option, I will read...reading gets rid of those million little things that need to be worried about and go on a constant loop in my head especially when I'm emotionally wrecked. Writing and reading is what I do for a living so reading something I want to and not have to edit it is a joy and the best escape!💗
  • happimess01
    happimess01 Posts: 9,071 Member
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    curl up in a ball and watch 'The office' while stuffing my face with Ben and Jerrys
  • cayenne_007
    cayenne_007 Posts: 668 Member
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    When I'm really emotionally spent - I prefer to be alone to recharge.
    1. Long walks with my dogs or take one of my horses for a ride.
    2. Manically Clean - the house, the barn, stalls, weed eat, mow the lawn - it's oddly therapeutic
    3. Just sit at the barn with a stiff drink & talk to my animals
    4. Write things down
    5. Bubble bath with soothing music
    6. Work on my garden
  • Beka3695
    Beka3695 Posts: 4,126 Member
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    I snuggle with the doggo and binge something on Netflix. My last binge was Blue Bloods. Doggo says he likes Blue Bloods, too.
  • Beka3695
    Beka3695 Posts: 4,126 Member
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    Come to think about it... I am pretty spent at work at the moment. I took a mental break and came here, but I have happy music in the background. Currently Jimmy Buffett is making me happy. Some days I resort to Five Death Metal. Today, is not that dark.
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
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    I consume nothing but coffee and stroopwafels while avoiding exercise and responsibilities, it almost never works
  • Reckoner68
    Reckoner68 Posts: 2,139 Member
    edited September 2019
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    Yeah I bury myself in video games or something else that's completely mindless and it also never really works long-term, though it helps for an hour or so
  • nooshi713
    nooshi713 Posts: 4,877 Member
    edited September 2019
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    Reading

    Taking a bath

    Getting a massage

    Calling my best friend

    Sleeping

    A vacation

    Music
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
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    Dancing to music, reading with my cat, watching birds, doing my fingernails ridiculous colors, drinking low calorie coffee drinks.

    It’s silly but I really do feel more able to cope when I change up my fingernails. For a while they were sparkly purple. I never used to do them, it’s a thing I started when I stopped using food emotionally.
  • Vikka_V
    Vikka_V Posts: 9,563 Member
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    - drink
    - go for a walk without my glasses on so I can be in my own world and listen to music
    - cry until I laugh at myself

    It's harder when at work, I offer to do a coffee run and cry in my car, or silently in the bathroom or if I wake up feeling that way I say *kitten* it all and call in fake sick and wallow
  • cynthiabickham
    cynthiabickham Posts: 1,009 Member
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    -hydrate
    -go for a walk
    -watch a movie
    -play with a dog/cat
    -write down how you feel
    -meditate
    -listen to music
    -read a book
    -look for hilarious fails on youtube
    -go on a quiet drive
    -talk to a close friend or relative
    -take a warm bath and relax
    -dance
    -go window shopping

    do whatever makes you feel comfortable.
  • DaddieCat
    DaddieCat Posts: 3,646 Member
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    I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that it might be self-incriminating.

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