Aside from crying, what gives you catharsis?

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toast@retrolemmy.com · 26 pts · 2d (5 replies)

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

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d (4 replies)

I am once again reminded I lack an original thought

thirdBreakfast@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2d

Same. Came here to drop this banger and I am gazumped by toast.

bizarroland@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d (2 replies)

I mean, this is a quote from Conan the Barbarian, so it's not an original thought for toast.

I will admit I could be misunderstanding something though.

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d

Using it as a reference as a joke in this context was what I meant

ElChinchilla@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

Buttery toast

Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 2d (1 reply)

talking into a fan so that your voice sounds funny

WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2d (2 replies)

The ocean

StickyDango@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2d

This definitely. Walking on a beach with nobody around does it for me.

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d

My father always said, the ocean washes away all your sins. He meant that it helps get rid of a hangover, but I find that it helps in a lot of other ways too.

Drusas@fedia.io · 16 pts · 2d (1 reply)

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

rmuk@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 2d

Recommendation: Brownie Mountain from Tim & Eric Awesome Show Great Job. It's a melancholy anthem that rewards - and, in fact, requires - fully-commited vocals, while at the same time also being a song about accidentally eating a literally mountain-sized pile of brownies.

schwim@piefed.zip · 11 pts · 3d

catharsis

Riding a bike far into the woods.

houndboy@awful.systems · 9 pts · 2d

Running.

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Primal screaming in an enclosed space, like an elevator

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 12h

one thing I miss about driving. though my passengers didn't appreciate it as much.

KC_Royalz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d (5 replies)

Sex with my wife and fishing

hakunawazo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d (3 replies)

* finishing

KC_Royalz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

Na. many times I just enjoy just finishing her

Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 23h (1 reply)

He meant fisting.

KC_Royalz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h

That too

GloriousGasHole@piefed.social · 0 pts · 23h

I also enjoy sex with this person's wife ^^

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2d (2 replies)

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.

Tujio@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Oh man. Streetlight strikes some emotional chords that nobody else can reach for me. Somewhere in the Between is my personal favorite album, but Everything Goes Numb is also 100% amazing songs. Plus, I swear that every time I've seen them live I walk out thinking "that might have been the best fucking show I've ever been to."

Whatever you're going through, I hope you wake up in a better place in a better time.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

Thanks sibling. It’s been a thousand tiny cuts this week but I’m holding on.

Both of those albums hold a ton of significance for me. I actually sang the song “Somewhere in the Between” as a lulllaby to my kid, but ETGN helped me through my other kid’s suicide attempt.

I’m glad to find someone who loves Streetlight like I do. If we haven’t met in the pit already, I hope we do soon.

(Assuming Tomas ever finishes the next album)

RoddyStiggs@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 2d

Masturbating

ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Violence & Physical activity to the point of exhaustion.

Working a heavy bag or chopping firewood are great examples.

bizzle@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

Choppin' wood SLAPS DUDE ITS SO GOOD

hedge_lord@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2d

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

mosaic09@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1d

orgasm. even better with a partner

radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d

Singing, playing music.

solrize@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 2d (2 replies)

Making up jokes about whatever the upsetting situation is.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

This works well.

I love mocking billionaires in my YT videos, in part, because it is in fact cathartic.

ElChinchilla@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d

One of my favorite jokes of all time is "that'll frac." (Used to be in the oilfield) but saying it after something has failed catastrophically. Like a 2500 HP throwing a rod, or hoses exploding. I wish I could employ that strategy inwardly.

Malica@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 2d

Music

DoubleDongle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d

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

bizarroland@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2d (1 reply)

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.

IronBird@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

too much effort, just get me a sliggy instead

RBWells@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

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.

ElChinchilla@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

Toss in Deja entendu by brand new some time. If you want a sad album it is like a soul dredge.

skooma_king@piefed.social · 4 pts · 2d

Surfing. Especially by myself.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 2d

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.

uen3@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Weeding the yard, one grass plant at a time

WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

I had a neighbor who used a pair of scissors to cut his grass regularly. It wasn’t a big yard, maybe 12ft x 12ft, but he’d be out there all the time kneeling and trimming his grass.

One day I asked why he didn’t just use a mower, and he said it gives him a chance to get some time away from his wife lol

Haven’t thought of that dude in a long time.

disregardable@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 2d

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

SarahFromOz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2d

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

CombatWombat@feddit.online · 3 pts · 2d

Watching "The Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller

FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

Jorkin' it.

Playing a good ol' tune on the piano

EntheoNaut@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2d

Gardening.

Walking my dog.

Shooting my guns.

CM400@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

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.

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2d

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.

YaksDC@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d

Getting rid of stuff at the dump.

Elting@piefed.social · 3 pts · 2d

Whistling.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d

A good session of bathroom relief.

KaRunChiy@fedia.io · 2 pts · 2d

Sleeping

IronBird@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

planning ways to destroy my enemies

Okokimup@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 23h

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.

Notyou@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 23h

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.

ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

Making sense of disagreements with those I care about (even if it involves more arguing) and clearing the air/resetting the mood.

HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 2d (2 replies)

So. The thing is im kinda stoic in manner.

TootSweet@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d (1 reply)

Sounds like we're in the same boat. But that's exactly why I'm asking.

HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 2d

yeah it was my round about way of saying I got nothing.