Overstimulated and burnt out….

What does everyone do when you feel so overstimulated and burnt out, that the littlest noise just makes you want to SCREAM?! I’ve just came upstairs to breathe and get 5 mins of quiet but all I can hear is the dog whining downstairs and my partner just ignoring it whilst he’s with our little girl?! I want to scream at everyone and the dog! But I don’t want to lash out at my partner as he dosent deserve it and my little girl shouldn’t see it. I haven’t and I won’t. But I get so close to just snapping, I’m trying to get better at not snapping at my partner, but how and what do you guys do when you feel like this? struggling.

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Go for a walk… remove yourself from the house.
You need to be able to have a change in scenery and also exhausts that rage.

Schedule a 20 min speed walk round the block just to wind down, it really does help!

Also you can have multiple arguments with yourself on the walk round 💗💗

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Book a massage or do something for yourself. The days I needed to scream I did a little self care and tried to recenter and focus my energy somewhere else.

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Leave for a nature walk, exercise with loud music or cry in to a pillow are all things I've done, also chamomile tea and a warm epsom salt bath, I'll take a nap right after that 😅

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A car ride on my own where I get to sing as loud as I want to MY music choice. I forgot how much I loved music for such a long time as I spent over a year just listening to nursery rhymes to appease my baby who hates the car.

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Overstimulated and burnt out….

What does everyone do when you feel so overstimulated and burnt out, that the littlest noise just makes you want to SCREAM?! I’ve just came upstairs to breathe and get 5 mins of quiet but all I can hear is the dog whining downstairs and my partner just ignoring it whilst he’s with our little girl?! I want to scream at everyone and the dog! But I don’t want to lash out at my partner as he dosent deserve it and my little girl shouldn’t see it. I haven’t and I won’t. But I get so close to just snapping, I’m trying to get better at not snapping at my partner, but how and what do you guys do when you feel like this? struggling.

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