What is cathartic for you?

[AchtungNight]

What do you do to work out your feelings when you see a bad situation about which you can do nothing? I watch movies and read books, trying to put the situation in terms of the stories I percieve. It usually works and is probably the reason I've written so much fanfiction.

What's your catharsis?

 

[NoJo]

What do you do to work out your feelings when you see a bad situation about which you can do nothing? I watch movies and read books, trying to put the situation in terms of the stories I percieve. It usually works and is probably the reason I've written so much fanfiction.

What's your catharsis?

Playing piano, boozing, running. I do too much of each these days

 

[Katyusha]

My primary one is driving. My job is driving, moving cars from one place to another and I often prefer to do it alone because it's cathartic. I put on whatever music I'm in the mood for and crank it up, and work out my feelings on whatever the problem is. When I've done it in my car I've been known to end up more than a hundred miles from home.

The other one is cycling, something I can do indoors on my bike on a rack or outdoors when it's warm, on a trail that goes who-knows-where. This works very well when the problem's causing a lot of emotion that I have to bottle for whatever reason; pent-up feelings make me very restless and fidgety and on a bike I expend energy while I think about things, and then I feel better both inside and out.

 

[sadangel]

Music. Usually Allison Krauss or my "Healing Angel" tape with Roma Downey speaking. It just works for me. Sometimes Reba McIntyre. Just depends. But music always works for me.

And driving when I can. I love to just drive. No destination needed.

 

[AchtungNight]

Music works for me too. If it's good. I also often see my situations mirrored in newspaper comics. And there's something to be said for banging one's head against a firm wall...

 

[SeaCat]

Depends on what the situation was.

Usualy something as simple as having a beer and a cigar. Sometimes it's cooking. Sometimes it's going to the range and dropping way too many rounds through the handgun.

The absolute worst times though, and there have been a couple have seen me loading up the bike and just taking off.

Cat

 

[_Lynn_]

It used to be driving, when I had my Corvette. With the top down, going nowhere in particular, music cranked, alone. Finding somewhere to push the the speed higher than the last time, to forget everything else, and just focus on my car. It never failed to make a difference.

 

[slyc_willie]

Music. Usually Allison Krauss or my "Healing Angel" tape with Roma Downey speaking. It just works for me. Sometimes Reba McIntyre. Just depends. But music always works for me.

I'm probably outing myself as a big softie, but "The Rose" (Bette Midler) always works for me when I want a good cry.

 

[bb_peaks]

Last year it was jogging. I stopped and haven't taken it back up. Reading a good book, writing, photography, sometimes just vegging out in front of the TV.

 

[sadangel]

I'm probably outing myself as a big softie, but "The Rose" (Bette Midler) always works for me when I want a good cry.

I won't tell. I LOVE that song.

 

[sr71plt]

-- Nevermind --

Too much lip-loosening Shiraz tonight.

 

[TE999]

How in hell do you follow that?

Anyway...I drive with the music blasting...just anywhere where I can go over 55mph...also weightlifting...you concentrate on your muscles...I also find an empty stretch of beach and let the sun and waves mellow me out.

 

[_Lynn_]

How in hell do you follow that?

I couldn't even think of a good reply.

 

[wmrs2]

The last time I needed a good catharsis, which is something that keeps me from being depressed, I wrote a story about a Christian young lady who was crucified in the Middle East. She set herself up to be crucified thinking that she was being martyred for God. But after being nailed to the cross, she realized she was fulfilling a crucifixion kink she had and that there was nothing religious about her crucifixion. You can read this story at the BDSM Library.

 

[_Lynn_]

-- Nevermind --

Too much lip-loosening Shiraz tonight.

No matter how much shit people give you, what I read showed a side of you that I already knew was there, so deleting your post won't make any difference for me.

 

[wmrs2]

Chtharsis By Being Nailed by Pen and Paper

I have been depressed today so I am busy crucifying beautiful Christian girls with pen and paper. Driving the nails does not give me the catharsis but revealing why these beautiful girls subconsciously volunteer to be crucified does.

 

[rengadeirishman]

i do it the way my ancestors did, get drunk and throw hands.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

When youve lived long enough you suddenly understand that most of what happens is bullshit you have no control over. Plus! Ninety-nine percent of the crap I worried about never happened.

At work they called me the I DONT CARE BEAR.

 

[Vermilion]

I bake.

 

[NoJo]

I have been depressed today so I am busy crucifying beautiful Christian girls with pen and paper. Driving the nails does not give me the catharsis but revealing why these beautiful girls subconsciously volunteer to be crucified does.

Excellent, a genuine nut case

 

[NoJo]

Catharsis -- I cried and cried for weeks as I tried to come to terms with the death of my father. The crying was involuntary, of course, but ineffective -- i didn't feel any better for all those tears. I wrote some really sad and rather beautiful songs at that time. That certainly helped. And I would court the Green Goddess Absinth.

Now (yesterday), my wife of 24 years has told me she's leaving. I'm still in shock. But my tears will surely flow soon, and if they do, they will no doubt be no salt of comfort

 

[sadangel]

Catharsis -- I cried and cried for weeks as I tried to come to terms with the death of my father. The crying was involuntary, of course, but ineffective -- i didn't feel any better for all those tears. I wrote some really sad and rather beautiful songs at that time. That certainly helped. And I would court the Green Goddess Absinth.

Now (yesterday), my wife of 24 years has told me she's leaving. I'm still in shock. But my tears will surely flow soon, and if they do, they will no doubt be no salt of comfort

I'm so sorry to hear that.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Joe...

 

[NoJo]

Joe...

Thanks for the -- I wish you were my type...

 

[driphoney]

So sorry.

Catharsis -- I cried and cried for weeks as I tried to come to terms with the death of my father. The crying was involuntary, of course, but ineffective -- i didn't feel any better for all those tears. I wrote some really sad and rather beautiful songs at that time. That certainly helped. And I would court the Green Goddess Absinth.

Now (yesterday), my wife of 24 years has told me she's leaving. I'm still in shock. But my tears will surely flow soon, and if they do, they will no doubt be no salt of comfort