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.
Distraction, suppressing, or numbing can work temporarily, to really process your emotions is better.
Breathe in deep. Close your eyes. Feel into your body. Every emotion manifests physically as well: tension, tingling, tremors, heat, etc. Stay with the physical sensation. Breathe into the sensation. Express the physical feeling through sound and movement.
Other options:
tl;dr actually feel and express your emotion for a bit