What do You do When You're Upset?

[Togekiss]

Normally, when I get upset, I try writing, reading, or drawing to help comfort myself. What do you do?

 

[Beardo]

Distract myself

 

[undernickle]

destroy stuff

- - - Post Merge - - -

or cry myself to sleep

 

[unintentional]

Draw vent art
Watch Game Grumps/Listen to Kimya Dawson
Sort my flowers in town by color (or find stuff irl to sort)

 

[Stevey Queen]

I can't cry anymore and I have no one to vent to (who cares) so all I can do is bottle it up and wait until something seriously bad happens and maybe I can get one tear to come out.

 

[Saylor]

I'll always either listen to or play music, usually for hours at a time. Sometimes I try to sleep it off but that doesn't seem to work very well.

 

[Keitara]

Watch any random One Piece scenes or my favorite one piece mep "on top of the world". Or another alternative is that I listen to lovely complex ending 2, I love that song or I just lurk into some manga in my shelf.

 

[Nanobyte]

I mope.
Mope.

 

[snapdragon]

Eat ;w;

 

[CainWolf]

For me it kind of depends on how and why I'm upset. If internet trolls make me angry I stop to listen to a cheerful My Little Pony song on youtube and come back to respond to them with a nice "I'm sorry you're upset, would you like to talk about it?" kind of response and oddly enough they tend to go away most of the time. If I'm feeling down for a more serious reason like the inevitability of death or something I meditate, I find it surprisingly helpful. When I just want to take my mind off of everything and avoid reality I watch people on youtube overreact to various things (games, movies, ponies, ect).

 

[DarkOnyx]

Mad-

Break stuff that I'll regret breaking later
Gathering unnessacery attention
Yelling at the top of my lungs
Punch my tablet


Sad-

Cry
Think about how my future involves being a janitor and having no one
Thinking about suicide
Crying more
Punching myself in the face
Crying some more

 

[Beardo]

Watch Game Grumps/Listen to Kimya Dawson

Yesss

 

[Togekiss]

Mad-

Break stuff that I'll regret breaking later
Gathering unnessacery attention
Yelling at the top of my lungs
Punch my tablet


Sad-

Cry
Think about how my future involves being a janitor and having no one
Thinking about suicide
Crying more
Punching myself in the face
Crying some more

I know how you feel. I do that when I'm mad/sad too. =n=

 

[RisingStar]

When I'm upset I usually isolate myself from others and not tell them that I am unless it's something really really bad then I give in and talk to people when they're around, but like if they're not, I probably just cry for about a half an hour before feeling better.

If it's something small and I'm just feeling miserable, I just put on youtube and watch Achievement Hunter for a few hours. It's amazing I haven't run out of any of their videos to watch yet.

I also used to write whenever I was upset too. And draw. That definitely worked too.

Or I also play Minecraft('Cause it can be a very therapeutic game) or something like that, and listen to The Patch(On RoosterTeeth) talk about video games and all since that's what I'm into.

 

[infinikitten]

Depends on what kind of upset we're talking about. Distracting myself is generally the best method no matter what, but there are some differences. I have some unhealthy coping mechanisms tbh but the good ones that I'd pass on to other people... well:

When I'm really intensely sad or on the verge of a panic attack, what helps to bring me out of it is, oddly enough, folding paper stars. It keeps my hands busy, forces me to focus on something else, and there's a cute/pretty result! I've staved off a lot of panic attacks this way actually. I don't like to bring my problems to my friends and talk about them (that's what my therapist is forrr~) so writing it out is also extremely helpful (and gives me something to talk about at my appointments haha).

When I'm super angry - and I know this is gonna sound silly but hear me out - I push really hard on a wall or something. I know a lot of people beat up pillows or squeeze stress-balls but I get more energy out by doing the wall thing instead. It's not even pushing so much as it is just... hardcore leaning. Yeah. Let's go with that. ;P It doesn't happen often though. I'm like a little squishy marshmallow of a person. I hardly ever get angry.

I'm not a talker when I'm upset but I am definitely a listener so, if anyone who sees this ever needs to vent to a stranger, PM me. I'm not just saying that, I mean it. If you need to talk and you've got nobody to talk TO, stewing in loneliness isn't gonna make it better - trust me. I'm around if anybody needs it.

 

[Ablaze]

When I'm mad, I just stay silent and make it appear that I'm not upset or anything. I just keep it all in and pretend like nothing's bothering me. I don't know if this is weird, but I don't really like letting it out even if I'm alone. If I'm mad or down, I'd rather just think about things rather than comfort myself. I dunno, I guess I just don't want to bother people with my problems...not that I actually have some really serious ones.

 

[Chris]

• Clean
• Do assignments
• Do TBT reports
• Play video games
• Sleep
• Text Justin, Meg-mog, or oath2order
• Watch TV
• Write

So I guess that breaks down to: immerse in something productive as a distraction; do something mind-numbing or sleep if I just don't feel like doing anything; or find someone to talk to.

 

[Caius]

It seriously depends on if there's confrontation or not. If I'm mad and get away from the situation I'll simmer down and let it dissipate over time. I'll try and forget it happened and generally move on with my life if I'm not reminded of i. If there is confrontation I have a nasty habit of snapping back and escalating things. It never used to be like that but over the past year I've become a bit more confrontational. Probably from years of verbal abuse that's been bottled up. I'm too full of BS to take anymore

 

[Alienfish]

Listen to music or play some random game so I can shake it off on there instead of punching people or stuff

 

[marzipanmermaid]

^^Always relevant to when I get upset.

I sleep, cry, play Animal Crossing, re-watch my favorite YouTube videos.
It depends on how bad it is and what I'm upset over.
Petting and hanging out with animals always cheers me up.