Ask Lemmy

Singing, playing music.

A hot bath. Talking to a good listener.

This may sound dumb, but resolving the problem. I was super stressed yesterday when I got an alert that my paid parking timed out. I thought i would be able to extend it on the app, but turned out you could only do that before the timer ended. And the website said you could ask a "live agent" any questions, but there was only AI with pre-selected topics.

So I had to hurry back across the city to pay for another period and I was LIVID but as soon as I got the next period covered (and no ticket) I felt better. I was (am) still angry on an intellectual level about the garbage parking company and their bald-faced lies about live agents, but I no longer felt the need to rage-scream.

A lot of good answers, so I'll add cooking.

Getting all the ingredients ready and putting them together is a good feeling. I feel like I'm creating something. Then I get to eat it. I'm making sauteed mushrooms and a turkey burger tonight. I got garlic paste for the mushrooms, so I'm excited for it. I love it when a plan comes together.

orgasm. even better with a partner

Crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the women!

Deep-chested, full-volume, belt-it-out singing. Especially if it's either super sad or very angry.

talking into a fan so that your voice sounds funny

The ocean

Run up mountain! Run up mountain until brain not working and feel like vomit!

Masturbating

Writing! It exorcises the bad feelings onto the page where they are trapped forever.

Primal screaming in an enclosed space, like an elevator

Full-contact boffer fighting. Feels good man. I can only imagine what the Buhurt loonies get out of it.

catharsis

Riding a bike far into the woods.

Violence & Physical activity to the point of exhaustion.

Working a heavy bag or chopping firewood are great examples.

Running.

Listening to a really good album.

There’s a good chance my wife will find me crying over Everything Goes Numb tonight.

It’s been a fucking week.

Sex with my wife and fishing

Eating good food.

And by good food, I mean food that is healthy for you and satisfying and novel enough that it causes the receptors in your brain to start firing off.

It's a rare treat to find a place that even offers that.

The last time I went to Portland I stumbled across a restaurant called kebab and had Egyptian chicken kusharia and it was so good that it made my entire week. I'm still thinking about that chicken kusharia and that was back in April.

Music

Weeding the yard, one grass plant at a time

Surfing. Especially by myself.

Making up jokes about whatever the upsetting situation is.

Sad sad songs.

Boulder to Birmingham

Red dirt girl

Nick Drake song Road because he did not find a road to take him home.

Dancing can, if I feel free enough. Like going out dancing someplace.

Singing (although depending on the mood and selection of songs, this may lead to crying).

Sex. Not masturbation, tho. If that ever leads to crying, they must've broke my dick.

sex. the end especially, when we are happy and cuddly.

planning ways to destroy my enemies

Sleeping

Playing “I sank it!”

Take a rock, imbue it with the emotion, the essence of what’s bothering you… name it the thing that is causing you grief, and chuck it in the fucking lake.

Gardening.

Walking my dog.

Shooting my guns.

Never discount what a good masturbation can do, or a nap. One after the other is even better.

If those don’t work and weather permits it, just going outside and watching nature is very cathartic for me. Not feeling trapped in an apartment or situation.