Yesterday was a day that I was overwhelmed with emotions. I had learned that my daughter was born nine days ago, and no one told me. (More on the feelings on my personal website). I got overwhelmed with emotions, so much sadness, concern, grief, and despair, plus anger at myself and the situation going through my head that I could not even think. I had a meltdown, a big meltdown.
I currently am in a residential crisis housing setting run by a Christian mental health service agency. The people here instead of trying to calm me down, encouraged me to vent my feelings which was a new thing to me. I have to say getting the feelings out was so much better then just bottling them up inside, trying to pretend everything is completely fine. I learned its alright to be angry, hurt, upset, and that its alright to show that. I’m so used to just hiding it until it overwhelms me. I wish to thank them for handling my meltdown in such a way, it really helped me.
But I would like to also pose a question, when your overwhelmed with emotions how do you cope? How do you deal with the meltdown in a positive manner instead of a negative manner?
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Wow, I can’t hardly believe that someone can have a baby and not know it. It’s quite unusual. Of course, with special circumstances anything can be possible.
I cope with anger by doing exercise. I think this is a positive way to vent it out.