What do you do to calm down yourself?

Listen to music& go shoot hoops.

Pay attention to my breathing, get it to back to normal & also pay attention to my muscles, any that are tensed up...and relax them. Both do wonders.

I paint it soothes me and helps me put my thoughts on the page

A glass of red wine ususally does it for me.

I listen to music or play video games.

Talk to Becca, Shake Weight, punching bag, videogames, write a violent Mafia story, Dr. Pepper

take a walk

I eat.

My version of the "Temple Grandin (see movie) Cow-Squeezer" is to pick up something that weighs 80-100 lbs and hold it up for a couple minutes, that calms me down.

Another thing is to play LOUD poly-rhythmic Music (Marvin Gaye e.g.)
when I get destabilized by chaotic noise.

Read in my Bible.

I mentally go over what is upsetting me and talk myself down. WOrks most of the time. I literally talk to myself and speak as if talking to someone else in distress.

hmmmm!! when i see my boyfriend :)

Smoke Marijuana

I've developed my own kind of self-defense mechanism because of my childhood (nothing really bad if you compare it to how bad other people have had it, but it still defined everything about me). My emotions sort of stop before they reach me, as if they very suddenly hit a brick wall, and then only those I want to feel come through. (I know they're there, but I can't feel them, only "see" them). So in a way I'm a little twisted because I don't feel guilt at all. The only emotion I can't block out is embarrassment (sadly) and sometimes anger. But I tell people that I feel guilty when I deduce that I should feel that way; it's so much easier than anything else. I don't do bad things just because I don't feel guilt though, as opposed to what many people asume :P It's a bit difficult to explain. When I DO get angry, I just stand still (or relax) and focus on anything and everything to keep it (the anger) in my stomach; I don't let it consume my whole body. Eventually it disappears. Do you know what I'm trying to explain? /:)

i go to sleep

Masterbate

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Reading, walk in narure, soothing musuc and incense, playing piano, art, talking to a friend about whatever's bothering you, smoking weed, cigarettes, alcohol, meditating, sleep, thinking about life and death and all the good things about everything, watching funny movie

Glass of wine and sit outside at night, so I can reflect on what happened and accept what is to come.

Exercise, works every time.

Have you considered either talking to someone about your anger (what it is that's making you so angry) and/or other outlets to release the anger? Although, hey, you aren't hurting yourself or anyone else, that's a plus.

I don't get angry real easily, its very rare, that's why once I get angry I go a little overboard.

Well that's a big plus! :)

Yup. Do you go overboard when your angry?

I use to when I was in my late teens through my 20s, pretty bad actually. I still have a temper, but not keep it under wraps. That's what made me want to comment to you.

That's nice. ^-^

Thanks, enjoy your evening, as nice talking to you.

Bye!

I think about what makes me angry and internalize it.... all of it
I don't allow it show that I need calming down, I just keep it all inside... Keeps me nice and warm in the winter,

Take deep breaths

Punch anything and everything in sight and cuss like a sailor. Or go for a run.

Squeeze off a few rounds at the rifle range.

Go to sleep..

i listen to music

i could watch a good movie

Lie down and listen to soothing music. Either that or I try to occupy my mind by drawing or playing an instrument or something like that