How do you manage your emotions?

Which 3 methods do you use most often to manage unwanted emotions?

  • *Drugs* Self-medicate to make those emotions go away!

  • Ignore the pesky feelings until they fade

  • Talk to someone else, vent

  • Physical exercise, being tired calms the storm

  • Meditation

  • Music

  • RAGE, time to break stuff

  • Logic your way past those emotions, Vulcan Style ™

  • Video Games, 100% I'm-in-control distraction!

  • Free Spirit, I wear my emotions on my sleeve and supress nothing

  • Stoic Face, only children display their emotions

  • Make a Forum Post

  • Other

  • Cursing!

  • Praying


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I don't really do anything. The closest I come to is "wearing it on my sleeve" but I'm naturally stoic in expression so that doesn't mean much. When the going gets rough I'm less patient and a bit more snippy with people but I never have outbursts. I keep my more drastic emotions to myself. I don't bury them, but I don't offer them to everyone around me either.

I guess I don't subscribe to the belief that there are unwanted emotions anymore. I used to hate myself for feeling a certain way about things. It'd just make it worse. Nowadays I just accept that something made me feel a certain way and I let it do its thing. If an emotion makes me restless I'll go for a walk. That doesn't get rid of the emotion for me, it just gets rid of the physical effects.
 
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