What do you do when you’re emotionally spent?

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  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    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
    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
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  • nooshi713
    nooshi713 Posts: 4,877 Member
    edited September 2019
    Reading

    Taking a bath

    Getting a massage

    Calling my best friend

    Sleeping

    A vacation

    Music
  • rheddmobile
    rheddmobile Posts: 6,840 Member
    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
    - 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
    -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.
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  • DaddieCat
    DaddieCat Posts: 3,643 Member
    I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that it might be self-incriminating.
  • Reckoner68
    Reckoner68 Posts: 2,139 Member
    I emotionally save again
  • NoHookUpZone
    NoHookUpZone Posts: 1,531 Member
    Boiling bubble bath, bath oil, incense, having Alexa turn the lights down to 10%, and play waterfall music on the bathroom echo.
  • mtndewme
    mtndewme Posts: 724 Member
    I grab something to eat and that's why I'm here again.
    Other than that, I'll go full hermit.
    If I'm at work I just go on autopilot and I think it freaks people out.
  • Reckoner68
    Reckoner68 Posts: 2,139 Member
    I retreat from just about everything, then if I come back to things it's always with a name that's incremented up by 1 and no profile picture
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    Reckoner68 wrote: »
    I retreat from just about everything, then if I come back to things it's always with a name that's incremented up by 1 and no profile picture

    A bunch of us are particularly jazzed for your next screen name
  • Reckoner68
    Reckoner68 Posts: 2,139 Member
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    Reckoner68 wrote: »
    I retreat from just about everything, then if I come back to things it's always with a name that's incremented up by 1 and no profile picture

    A bunch of us are particularly jazzed for your next screen name

    I'll go right to 70 cause I'm old and crabby
  • caco_ethes
    caco_ethes Posts: 11,962 Member
    Reckoner68 wrote: »
    caco_ethes wrote: »
    Reckoner68 wrote: »
    I retreat from just about everything, then if I come back to things it's always with a name that's incremented up by 1 and no profile picture

    A bunch of us are particularly jazzed for your next screen name

    I'll go right to 70 cause I'm old and crabby

    And miss the chance to change reckoner to wreckinher? I mean
  • TheChristianSimone
    TheChristianSimone Posts: 156 Member
    Having dealt with dark depression and trauma my advice would be do what you set out to do even if you don’t feel like it as it at least gave me control over something in my life. Things will happen and it’s life but my deepest strength was built in those moments.

    If your a outward emotional person then writing or something focused can help too. And another thing is to actually identify the emotions and move forward so much of society is distraction but you cant fix what you don’t have a name for.
  • mamakatiekat
    mamakatiekat Posts: 74 Member
    My only time lately to decompress is going to the gym. It's my alone time and it always puts me in a better mood.
  • thereshegoesagain
    thereshegoesagain Posts: 1,056 Member
    My first choice is to go for a long, exhausting swim. No one can see your tears in the pool.
    If I can't do that I'll cuddle with me cats, cry and drink wine. I did a lot of both whike going through my divorce and move to a new state.
    I'm much better now, time really does help.

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