Who do you discuss/vent with?

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If something's bothering me, I just write it down, whether in a notebook or on a sticky note. I vent to myself...

Worry I'll sound too upbeat on this subject & it'll be interpreted as gloating, because I do have outlets. Doesn't prevent my being down, but I have to admit I've got more appealing options than I used to. I've got 3 male friends & 3 female counselors with whom I regularly speak. I can say almost anything to them. Problem is often that no one's available during times I really need them-like nighttime, weekends, holidays. Then I sit & read, here at WP-or write in my journal. Too bad that I absolutely loathe exercise of any sort.
Vent by behaving emotionally (weeping, frowning silently, sighing)-that's when I don't have a handle on things. If I feel more stable, I try describing my inner state, with words instead of actions.
I do "talk back to" the radio, since the news makes me angry & sad constantly. Seems perfectly normal to talk out loud, regardless of whether anyone's here to hear me. It's harmless tension-release, narrating to myself how I see things, moment-to-moment.

I try very hard not to vent to friends. I feel it is important to not use them as therapists. I don't want to make our social contacts seem dreary. Everybody has their own issues and mostly when they go out to socialize they are trying to forget about their troubles for awhile. I do talk to my mom. She always listens. She has learned that sometimes I just need to vent and don't necessarily want advice. A trained therapist is helpful if you have access. Spouses usually don't make the best sounding boards.

I call up one or more of my friends,I write in my journal and/or blog,and I rant on WP.


-SpaceCase

I all worry about venting to friends but lately I have become to realise that they don’t mind as much as I thought they did / wood since I have graglay increasing venting with them they tend to join in
and I rant on Wrong Planet. Before I tended to explode. I just reliside that I have only cried 5 times in the last 2 months and 3 of those times were probably caused by Quitting smoking and the other 2 were triggered by threads on Wrong Planet. This is big for sone one who has spent the last 3 years in a washing machine of emotions.

Sports.