I do something that completely shuts my brain down, like play video or browser games, and then once it's more settled, I try the distracting with stuff that requires thinking.
It's very, very hard to deal with workplace stress. I've never had it personally, but Sargon has wrestled with it so often and so hard that I have sooo much sympathy.
Then I suppose my little homestead in Frontierville is going to be VERY well-tended. ^_^;
I just find myself SO ANGRY. I hate it. I have to psych myself up in the morning just to get out of bed, and Boyfriend is palming his dad's Xanax for me so I don't wind up in a sniveling heap on the floor of my cube before 10am. (And I would LOVE to quit, go back to school for a while, or just get a part-time job flipping burgers, but I'm a dumbass and still have a lot of debt to work through and a savings cushion to build up before telling them where to shove it is a viable solution. I think instead I'm just going to start using some of my PTO for long weekends on a regular basis.)
When I find myself in that sort of situation, I put myself on a mental leash. When I stray into the territory I'm trying to avoid, I give myself a mental jerk and when I let go of it, I get a reward - a pretty thing to look at, marking off one step closer until I will let myself have/do something I want, an M&M. It helps create positive reinforcement that when I leave that shit alone, good things happen.
It is rather a lot of work, though. I used that when I was trying to get PTSD under control. I thought of my emotions as a badly behaved dog that I was trying to teach to walk nicely on a leash.
The flip side to that is that I'd have to have 'debrief' times during the day where I just let the emotional shitfest happen for a bit, because if I always avoided it, it'd build up and really fuck me over.
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It's very, very hard to deal with workplace stress. I've never had it personally, but Sargon has wrestled with it so often and so hard that I have sooo much sympathy.
*hugs*
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I just find myself SO ANGRY. I hate it. I have to psych myself up in the morning just to get out of bed, and Boyfriend is palming his dad's Xanax for me so I don't wind up in a sniveling heap on the floor of my cube before 10am.
(And I would LOVE to quit, go back to school for a while, or just get a part-time job flipping burgers, but I'm a dumbass and still have a lot of debt to work through and a savings cushion to build up before telling them where to shove it is a viable solution. I think instead I'm just going to start using some of my PTO for long weekends on a regular basis.)
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It is rather a lot of work, though. I used that when I was trying to get PTSD under control. I thought of my emotions as a badly behaved dog that I was trying to teach to walk nicely on a leash.
The flip side to that is that I'd have to have 'debrief' times during the day where I just let the emotional shitfest happen for a bit, because if I always avoided it, it'd build up and really fuck me over.
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