What To Do About Explosive Mindset

[Anarchy]

Do you get short tempered when you get hungry?

I used to get ratty and a bit paranoid if I hadn't eaten. I've a bit (too much) more weight on now and it doesn't seem to happen. I also find that fatty foods help more than lots of carbs.

Hope you feel better soon
:hug:@

 

[Sideways]

Can you pencil in some kind of workout or yoga sesh or something prior to that job interview (which you tried to slip in under the radar - big big deal and you're gonna do great:) )?

 

[Elevatorguy]

I hope tomorrow you have a better day ;)

 

[joeylittle]

Does it work for you to drink your calories? I'll page @FridayJones, she's got multiple smoothie recipes posted. You'll also find you are likelier to feel hungry if you can stick rigidly to 300 or so calories every 3/4 hours. Have protein with everything.

People can usually figure out the one food that they can eat, when all other foods seem abysmal. It's not like you will want to eat it, but it won't be as hard. Even simple things - if you drink coffee, toss some coconut oil or butter in there (I know, it sounds strange, it's this annoying fad in the US - but if you'd be drinking the coffee anyway, you'll get a nice serving of fats and that will help you get off on a good foot.

 

[Friday]

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@joeylittle These ones! :)

I've been eating a lot of soup, lately. Got an immersion blender, so I've been going a little crazy with creamy / fluffy veggie soups cooked with meat stock. One of the easiest is carrots boiled in beef stock with a clove of garlic, then blended smooth. Add cream and a dash of nutmeg and handful of asiago cheese for decadence & added fats/calories.

But the easiest by far is making a mug of veggie, chicken, lobster, or beef stock (I use a heaping tablespoon of Better Than Bouillon, which is halfway between bouillon cubes & a Demi-glacé + hot water + stir). Handfuls of anything can be added to mugs of broth (veggies, leftover meats, melty cheese), or I can drink them plain, or squirt in some lemon or lime for some vitC. (Lemon for chicken, lime for beef). It's a 6o second meal.

<grin> There are a lot of gaspachos / cold soups for hot weather, also.

When I make whole pots of soup (or pitchers of smoothies)... I freeze most of them in ice cube trays, and empty them into a ziplock bag for each "kind" of soup/smoothie. So I've got several ziplock bags full of frozen nutrition cubes in my freezer, usually. That way I can pop a cube or three into a cup and microwave. Even if I don't want to eat, I can usually knock back a shot of soup or smoothie every few hours. There are so many times when doing anything beyond heating something up is just beyond me. So when I *can* cook I always cook extra. That way I have a lot of choices when I am too >.< to cook anything. Plus -unlike smoothies- it's all super cheap. If I'm living off soup I'm nutritionally balanced for about $50 per month. Sauces & curries freeze well, too :)

 

[Friday]

Yeah and usually it helps.

Just not at the moment. Im obviously so angry Im a little worried about it.

Sometimes I have to just quit fighting it, lay down, and let the firestorm wash over me. Can take hours. Can take days.

Other times, yes, burn it off, relax it away, source it out, do all the things I know work. Usually work. Will work. Once I can trust myself to do them... Do all the things contained in here Dealing With Anger

But sometimes? I just need a time out. A rest. A chance to let it burn out.

 

[Bloomy]

@Anarchy - Im a monster without stable bloodsugar. I become mad. Irritable. I snap on everything and everyone. So Im pretty sure the low food intake is not making my anger seisures any better.

I got a lot of good food tips here now that I can use so thats great @FridayJones @joeylittle

@Ragdoll Circus I should have waking up at 6 am to eat and slip in the yoga yes. Instead I woke up just in time to be there 10 min before. Severe pain cause Im loosing a big toe nail. Im not sure how this interwiew went cause of this, but anyway Im not negative if outcome will not be positive. I mean - I got an interwiew and it means its possible to get others if this doesnt work out. And Ive learned from the interwiew today a lot of useful things if I choose to apply for same kind of job again. So Ill be more prepared next time around. And then the issues with the toenail will be over.

Today it dawned on me that if I dont take action Ill loose all the fitness Ive worked so hard for the past years and that is so dear to me. Activities that made me stand when I thoguht I couldnt.

And all your replies been tremendously helpful and most of all the support your are showing. Ill set a time limit to to begin to regulate the eating and hopefully get back to where I was for about some months ago. I also hope this will make the anger cool down a bit.

The thing about lying down @FridayJones is a good input. Im always such an active fixer. Always on the barricade. But to lay down and give myself the rest and wether out the storm is a good one.

 

[Ronin]

If it's something 'just mindset', I try to find the smallest thing worth kindness and focus on it till it sinks in.

If it's something body, as said, sugar & hormones & environment check. It may be some detail I register subconsciously as a danger, because it was danger in the past, is getting on my nerves and doesn't register to the whole of me, so hunting for the little critter getting to me that bad and altering or removing it is.

If it's social, I either find other way to lash out, or let it wash over me and distance for as long as it takes for the anger to become a a different type, different intensity, different direction type of emotion.

 

[Ronin]

And I am a irrational tickin bomb at the moment hence this thread...

Mental shift, maybe?
Focusing on other countries, & socializing with people of different mentality?

(Totally how I go by. It's the reverting to where I am at present and paying attention that 'splodeyness happens. Switching gears & focusing on other places ASAP = Sanity saving.)

 

[Lionheart]

Years ago, I began to have outbursts of irritability and anger towards others so much so that others were afraid to be around me, ....even my own family.

The psyche doctor prescribed a low-dose of Abilify and it corrected the problem really well.

I am not so easily angered now and I deal with being angry much better. Couldn't hurt to ask your psychiatrist or physician about this medication.

Journaling also helped me to explore my angry feelings.....I just thought I needed to know why I was angry and what I wanted to do (if anything) before taking action.

Good luck,
Lion

 

[Changing4Best]

The last time I got really angry was maybe 2 years ago, but I lost a good friend who often was helpful to me in the process. She had broken a promise on me, a big button of mine. I hate it when folks break agreements and promises!

In fact, someone else got mad at me recently and unfriended me on Facebook. I was just being my usual self, explaining calmly why I could not do things her way nor agree to her breaking a promise on me and she got angry at me and really broke her promises to me. All of them! Then she unfriended me on Facebook, adding insult to injury. I guess I just can't win. Either way, whether I hold my temper or blow it, I still lose a friend.