I’ve not had a good day today. The kids have been shits, my wife has winged at me for not doing something I have already done, I’m hot, tired and stressed from work and fed up of not having a good nights sleep due to my 3 year old waking us up in the middle of the night constantly.
I want to rage at something but I can’t leave the house. I have access to a gaming PC, PS5 and all the movies the streaming services have to offer, my wife isn’t home so it’s just me and a couple of kids who should be asleep in the next hour or two.
I need some catharsis, what would you do?
Doom. Go play Doom. Don’t pick hardest difficulty, don’t pick easiest difficulty. Smash your way through some demons with a killer fucking soundtrack.
EDIT: Doom 2016 is the one I was referring to. Great lore, but you don’t have to slog through cutscenes and the lore doesn’t get in your way when mowing down crowds of angry monsters.
Agreed. Keep the difficulty hard enough to keep your mind from wandering, but not so difficult that it makes you angrier.
Accept the fact that life doesn’t always (actually, never) goes as planned or is easy. Them think about how much your life works suck of all the people who angered you today were not in your life (you have to think past the initial “I can do whatever I want” phase and into the “I’m an adult whose only purpose in life is to survive because of instinct”).
Then hug those kids before bed, tell them you love them, ask them if tomorrow they well try to do better if you promise to do the same (whatever the did, this is generic).
When your wife comes home, greet her with a clean kitchen and a glass of water with cucumber in it or something, tell her the kids settled down and you got to relax for a bit, and ask her how things went.
Take a walk and listen to an album you’ve been meaning to get to. When you get back, take a shower and light some incense. Then just kick back brew some tea and play a cozy game for an hour or three.
My go to is just screaming
Take a walk
Or
Go sit in my backyard alone.
Mind if I join you in your backyard as well?
Random workout-anything to get moving. Stretching, Push ups, yoga, calisthenics, dancing, run outside if you can. It is weirdly relaxing.
Go outside for a walk or run. Take a couple of deep breaths for like 5 minutes. Listen to your favorite music. And then remember: this too, shall pass.
I honestly just go outside and sit in the quiet or go for a walk/drive. Nothing good comes with yelling or fighting in my experience so I just take myself out of the situation until I can get a level head to handle whatever the problem is. In your case, when you get the time maybe take a cold bath (I like to take one in the dark) and listen to music/podcasts since you can’t leave the house
Put in some ear buds (to avoid waking the kids) and blast Metallica or your favorite heavy music.
If I couldn’t leave the house I’d play some violent video games.
When I can leave the house I’d go for a walk, fresh air and open skies tends to calm me down and put things in perspective.
GTA 5 in “director mode” with a bazooka and then going on a highway and exploding the cars really does it for me actually. I’m not a violent person, but it helps on bad days.
I get angry when I spend 10 minutes writing a reply on Lemmy and it doesn’t publish.
Seriously Jerboa kinda sucks on my phone.
It’s early days, it will get better
