Dear Gaia:

When overwhelmed with “extreme feelings” (title of your thread), we can’t think clearly, so it is not really useful to try to  understand things.

The thing to do when overwhelmed by emotional storms, or when having what you called this day, “another of my blues days in which I feel melancholy and frustration”, is to go outside if possible, take a short or long walk, have the cold December air refresh your tired brain, and when you are back home, you will feel better.

If it is too cold or dark to go outside, do some exercise at home, twenty minutes of it, or so. Best to have a Daily Exercise Routine, it helps stabilize extreme feelings and/ or lift you up from melancholy and frustration.

*Also, a hot bath is likely to help, warm milk perhaps, listening to music and allowing yourself to drift into relaxing/ feel-good fantasy for some time.

anita