Jamesy wrote:
Suggestions about managing meltdowns when you can't avoid the triggering feeling
That is a difficult question.
But, why in the first place you want to avoid it?
Negative feelings belong to life like positive ones.
Suppressing the feelings doesnt help me in the long run. Working on them is much more useful. (If you still can)
Letting them out will reset the bad feelings. Thats why we cry.
The stronger the feelings the more difficult to suppress. Usually I suppress them when I am not alone.
But for me if I dont let it out I will overload. Or just be absent totally
If I do something totally else not thinking about those, I might get rid of them.
From time to time I clench my teeth, physically, that reduces the trigger
I guess meltdowns are quite different from person to person, so physical tricks will be different.
To control overwhelming feelings is maybe a good thing to know. Reducing helplessness by being strong,
by kicking the as of the devil in you.
I think no human being can totally suppress negative feelings when they are just strong enough.
Meltdowns are I think not really that bad. Anxiety issues or overloads are much worse. Stress is much worse.
Well, they are the causes of meltdowns.
Meltdowns do not last as long as those can last. They help to recover. Overloads can stay very long time and make you do crazy things or freeze
17 Sep 2012, 2:17 pm
