What do you do to let the steam out?

[Argo]

Like when things aren't going right at work or at home. Or you simply had a bad day. Do you stay home and think things over? Do you go out and start a fight with a stranger? Play video games? Share what works for you and what doesn't.

Myself, I grab my mp3 player and go outside for a jog. And I don't stop until I absolutely cannot go any longer.

 

[Scarpozzi]

Grab my guitar and play....sometimes I drink a little and sleep it off.

 

[Fausto]

Cycling is pretty much what keeps me sane. 10-15 hours per week on the bike and I'm just too tired and doped up on endorphins to get worried or upset about anything.

A few beers never hurt either.

 

[yobarman]

hit the gym. releases all my energy, gets my endorphines pumping, and leaves me too tired to get mad about anything for the next couple days

 

[MichaelD]

1. Go home
2. Slam door
3. Twice
4. Kick dog for no apparent reason
5. Throw bleach in fish tank
6. Throw dead fish at significant other
7. Call her "fatty"
8. Twice
9. Kick dog again.
10. Boot up PC
11. Windows crashes (again)
12. Boot PC out window
13. Call dog to kick it, but dog smart this time and dog no come
14. Call small child to front door
15. Kick small child
16. Three times
17. Type nasty hate-mail emails to letters to Martha Stewart and Christopher Lowell
18. Take bubble bath
19. Sleep
20. Lather, Rinse, Repeat next day



'HTH!

 

[RegaPlanet]

I'm all about the gym too. It's the only thing that's kept me sane the past year

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
1. Go home
2. Slam door
3. Twice
4. Kick dog for no apparent reason
5. Throw bleach in fish tank
6. Throw dead fish at significant other
7. Call her "fatty"
8. Twice
9. Kick dog again.
10. Boot up PC
11. Windows crashes (again)
12. Boot PC out window
13. Call dog to kick it, but dog smart this time and dog no come
14. Call small child to front door
15. Kick small child
16. Three times
17. Type nasty hate-mail emails to letters to Martha Stewart and Christopher Lowell
18. Take bubble bath
19. Sleep
20. Lather, Rinse, Repeat next day



'HTH!

You are SO not watching my dog, fish and kid this weekend.....freak.

 

[Evadman]

I beat the crap out of people in Tribes.

 

[Argo]

Hitting gym doesn't really work for me. I know too many people there and I don't want to be around people when I'm having a bad day.

 

[Siddhartha]

Sex

 

[Deeko]

pumpin the iron! my max goes up alot when im pissed

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: Argo
Hitting gym doesn't really work for me. I know too many people there and I don't want to be around people when I'm having a bad day.

Yeah, but there are so many opportunities to drop something heavy on someone else's foot.....

 

[Mr N8]

Go to my basement and lift.

Although, I'm considereing sending hate mail to Martha Stewart and Christopher Lowell, now. Good idea MD

 

[zCypher]

Sometimes I bottle it in... not good. But there's not much I can do to release my anger most of the time. Oh well.

 

[Yossarian]

Sometimes I lift. Sometimes I rent a plane and fly around for an hour or two, it requires total concentration so by the time you're done your head is very clear.

 

[EngenZerO]

I usualy start playing a violent video game, recently its been Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. If that doesn't help I go downstairs and spar up against my punching bag and lift weights. It usualy helps relieve most of the stress or anger.

 

[Descartes]

I drive around in my car and listen to some of my favorite classical music.

That usually works for me...

 

[AreaCode707]

read, write.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Heavy bag.

 

[brunswickite]

bottle up the anger until, i one day explode and lash out violently against society


nah jk


blast music, video game that alaways works for me

 

[linuxboy]

What do you do to let the steam out?

Usually, I keep the temperature low enough so there isn't much steam, period. When it does come, making a small opening to vent it out from the pot works. Unless I'm using a pressure cooker, but those are trickier.


Cheers !

 

[Geekbabe]

I think of creative ways to torture AOL end users

 

[boyRacer]

i take a drive around 1am-3am... i maybe driving a POS car... but it does feel good... no traffic... everything is wide open... it feels awesome. Wait til i have enough money for a car i want... but i'm a car freak so that's my way of letting out however weird it is...

 

[NogginBoink]

Honestly, I vent to co-workers.

But when you work in tech support, that's part of the job: listening to and empathising with other workers' stories.

 

[Moonbeam]

Dr. Smooth, this is not the first time I've noticed you seem to have something of an IQ.

We used to have a padded cell built specially for that purpose. You could go inside and flip out without hurting yourself or worry about the noise. You can do the same thing in a chair though but you have to abide by strictures not to act out physically on the rest of the group. The cell is great, though, because you can act out, but none of that is what really matters. The important thing is to allow the feelings to become real, to reach what it is that is really going on behind the apparent rage or upset or sadness.

Sadness and depression are generalizing a bit, suppressed rage. You feel nothing and that feels like being dead which isn't far from the truth. In such a state some trivial matter, I can't find my glasses, can tip that into a rage. The deadness is to protect you from the rage. But the rage is, to generalize a bit, to protect you from something worse, sadness. So when you've beaten the walls silly, or your thighs or a pillow or the air that can lead into tears and more tears and more tears till all of a sudden you're back there remembering, reliving some deeply sad thing, the loss of a parent, getting wailed on, etc. Once you make contact with the real, you're real feeling, the actual place where the feeling leads back to, the relief is immense. Then you can cry for yourself and what was done to you, what really happened and start to heal.

Nothing could have been otherwise than it was. It was EDIT: 'NOT' your fault. There was never anything really wrong with you. Everyone was asleep just as we are now.