Hey everyone here 👋
I’ve been wondering: how do you handle cases, when you get overwhelmed with emotions to the state, that you simply cannot focus on anything but that emotion? I hate that feeling, because it really makes me to feel sick with just being emotional.
My take is that I usually just break from a situation, take an hour or two, and try to stim myself with something else: a game, a movie, something like that. Though, sometimes I don’t have a time space to do it: I need to be gathered and focused here and now, with no space for wiggling.
It isn’t always instant-relief, but helps a lot in the long run: Have time to think without being blasted by media. A walk, run or biking without music, any workout without music (or video; for me working only in an outside workout park or my home, not a gym with all the noise and people), work in the garden, simple work like painting a wall, again, without music.
Dr. K also strongly advises this, and it works for me, but I understand that understimulation can be hard for some. He says that it also helps with poor dreams and nightmares, as the brain gets a chance to process stuff. If we don’t let it, it gets its chance anyway - at night. And it will take it, leading to poor sleep with additional problems and possibly increased ADHD symptoms the next day.