Anger

[BearAndPanda]

Hi! I have a question! When you get angry what do you do? Do you fidget to keep your mind of it? Or any other tactics to calm down? Please let me know!

 

[teddymouse]

needle felting is a good angry buster, japping at a ball of wool with a 4 inch barred needle a few 1,000,s times ,is very distressing.

 

[jayne]

If you get angry why not punch a boxing bag ( punch bag ) that might help you ! Or just do something of your hobbies to take your mind off what ever cause you to think angry !

 

[Betsy]

I go for a walk to calm down or bake.

 

[Merab's Slave]

Go for a walk.
Make bread
Do something different to make the space to calm down.
Watch something/ read something that is little more than brain fluff

 

[Lorcan]

I play videogames and switch the in-game music to whatever angry/loud/in-your-face music I want from Spotify (my neighbours are probably glad I use earbuds). Saying "distractions" probably sounds like nothing but if I learnt anything from DBT, it was that distractions are an absolute gift. Write alphabet lists with 5 different words per letter, or 5 different names per letter. Watch funny montages from your favourite shows on YouTube. There's a couple of Android games (Sort It 3D, and Bead Sort!) where the gameplay is literally just sorting coloured things into tubes and dishes - switch your internet off and just play, they don't require an internet connection and they don't require you to really think to play them either.

 

[TheguineaPiggyGal]

I pet my baby girl, or practice hitting for my softball travel team. I pretend the ball is my anger and I hit it so far I wont find it for a long time.

 

[JimmythePig]

Walking works for me too, it always clears my head and helps me put thing in perspective.

 

[VickiA]

I recognise it as anger, understand what it is causing it, usually talk to someone about it then consciously let it go.