Those of you who tend to keep your emotions locked down until you absolutely can’t anymore, what tends to happen when you finally snap? How do you let it all out?

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1. I wait until I’m alone and scream into a pillow, or go on a walk to the forest and scream there. Either way, screaming.

2. Word vomit and I scream everything out all at once when arguing

3. It depends there’s different stages :

   Stage 1. I explode on the source of my high emotions that I had been bottling up but then bottle up again.

   Stage 2. I go back to drinking excessively for a short period of time and activate the self pity party, then I bottle it up one more time.

   Last stage. I disappear from people’s life = I take my stuff and leave the country until I’m recharge enough.

4. Cry and yell

5. Panic attacks and crying

6. A sob session and listen to ASMR and I’m grand.

7. I get depressed for weeks, absolutely hate myself, and paint… i get so unproductive… it’s like I’m frozen. And then i have to drag myself out of that state somehow

8. Experienced a lot of challenging situations and my reaction boils down to any of the following:

   I burst out crying

   I blurt whatever is in my mind, while still crying.

   I walk away from everybody, everything. To not speak again.

9. I cry and/or shutdown (can’t eat, can’t sleep, can’t function without listening to comfort songs on repeat)

10. I cry a lot, say I’m gonna change, and then end up repeating the cycle

11. Usually cry in the shower. If I don’t, then it turns into “talking about my feelings” which somehow always ends in an argument

12. i used to self harm or try to take my life. haven’t done that for a while, so not sure what i do? i just cry or scream at my parents or something

13. I angry cry. It’s angry because I’m angry I’m crying.

    I don’t cry easily so when it happens, my partner takes it seriously. Which I’m glad for.

14. Mmm, it doesn’t happen often, but when it does, it’s an end of the world moment. I cry and feel as though everything is over.
    I really need to work on regulating my emotions more and embracing them, as the end of the world moments are not nice and take time to come back from.

15. Good 3 minutes super intense crying. Then icecream.

16. Never reached a point where I exploded. Yet.

17. At most, there’s a mini explosion I guess. But I generally isolate and give myself space+time when that happens..

    I just vent it out on a notes app/self-chat, perhaps punch the wall a bit, and sleep on it.

18. You know that episode of the Simpsons where Ned Flanders snaps? That.

19. Angry crying meltdown.

20. Cry alone in bed

21. I hate myself for it but I start yelling. I consider myself lucky if I don’t end up saying nasty things in a fit of anger. I yell because I feel powerless against the situation. I try to remind myself that the current person I’m standing off against probably has nothing to do with my anger at various situations and does not deserve my anger.

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