I had a frustrating day today, with the baby, with the dog, with house stuff, and I felt like I was in a funk.  I went for a nice long run, worked up a sweat, and I feel better.

How do you folks deal with frustration at different things?

I am just gonna sit down that helps most of the time.

I drive and listen to music it seems to calm me down a lot! Or I go to sleep. I also yell it out or walk my dog. I find it depends on how mad I am.

I either listen to music or write away as those helps me to calm down.

I just take it out on my friends and act totally selfish towards others. 

Snowboarding, go to the gym, listen to music or play games. Anything that distracts me tends to do it. If im in a bad mood I try not to dwell on it.

In the most extreme of situations, I go somewhere secluded where nobody is, look at the sky, and pretend to be a sailor who has clearly never had soap in their mouth.
Usually making faces like these as I perform such antics:

Most of the time I try to do things that would end up acting as both a distraction, and also as a thing to lift my spirits. I love playing games, and I love watching anime, and I love reading, so any of the three activities would work to help me deal with frustration. I could, in some cases, also be cured by eating some of my favorite foods, or by hanging out with my friends, or by listening to music, but they tend to help significantly less in that regard. 

I just play a random game and let take out any enemy I encounter. For example an online shooter game and overkill an opponent. 

The door to my room is made of some kind of metal, so I either punch it with my bare fist or put boxing gloves on and punch it.

I like to deal with frustration in two very different ways. One way I like to deal with a hard day is just to pack up my gun and hit the shooting range. It is very relaxing to shoot a nice AK 47 semi automatic assault riffle and just try to unload that frustration in a safe environment. Another, more common, way I like to deal with frustration is just to put my headphones on and unwind with some relaxing music. I like to think about all the instruments and try to understand the lyrics, rather than just go with the beat. 

When I go exercising it clears up my mind, or I eat a lot or I'm just sad until someone talks with me and then I feel better. I also like to spend time with electronics since you forgot about the other things and just can concentrate on Vizzed or games for example.

I tend to keep it to myself sometimes which is a bad habit I am hoping to break. I mainly do it out of sheer anger and frustration and I just don't want to talk about it with anyone else. It depends on the level of frustration though, if it isn't serious, then I get over it and move on, but if it is something major, then I either listen to music and do stuff I enjoy like play video games to get it out of my system. Usually I don't stay angry for more than 3 days, and if it is really bad, then I might hold a temporary or permanent grudge on whoever made me upset, but I almost always get over it. I find it best to deal with frustration by doing what you like or enjoy, some people deal with their anger by shopping or cooking or whatever it is they like, so in my opinion, I would do whatever works to your liking. Good topic by the way. 

Well, for me, I usually just scream a lot in my head for a couple minutes and then I usually feel a lot more relaxed.

When I'm frustrated, I just stop thinking about the thing that's frustrating me.

I either go off on a long, angry monologue in my head or I do my eyebrows, doing my eyebrows calms me down. No idea why, but at least they look fabulous.

Usually playing on the computer works as a distraction but I am easily entertained so a little bit of everything. Reading, writing, the punching bag, loud music, or quietly controlling my breathing while clearing my mind of everything. Find something simple that makes time fly and theres your distraction.

I do this:


NOTE: I did this video and I do not advertise myself because I don't think there will be more of this.

I sit down and breathe. I just try not to focus on anything for a while. Then, i usually go run somewhere listening to some music. Mostly because i enjoy running (It's one of my favourite things to do).
And i repeat that cycle until i'm not frustrated anymore ^^ 

When I feel I am nearing a breaking point, I try to step back an remove my self from the cause. Playing your favorite video game or taking a nap normally helps. Unfortunatly for myself the sorce of my frustrations is almost always job realated so I just cant get up and leave when I am mad so I just try to get through the day calm headed and take extra care to think about what I say when I get like this as I am more likley to say something out of the heat of the moment that I dont normally agree with. Just try to stay away from vices like cigerettes and alcohol as these may have short term relief but never and actual solutions.