Getting over a meltodown

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Hey everyone,

I've been feeling pretty low mood wise this last month so I've been having a lot of meltdowns. Today my washing machine blew up while I was watching this weeks walking dead and I thought it was on fire (it wasn't, jut a lot of smoke!) As you can imagine this set me off in a big way to the point of completely hyperventilating an throwing up all over the kitchen floor.
I've had a sleep and got my sugar levels back up but expect to feel lousy for the next few days now, but it got me wondering about how others recover afterwards.

So do any of you have any tips that you use to get yourself back on track after a meltdown?

Hehe. That reminds me of a meltdown I had many years ago when my VCR ate a few inches of the tape (Red October) that I was watching with a friend. The tape wouldn't eject. While he skipped out to check his laundry, I decided to extract the tape from the VCR by opening it up. In doing so, the tape snapped ... and so did my anger. I ended up fist-punching the VCR's motherboard to a point that it was FUBARed (revenge for all those years of lame hardware and software came rushing back with every "snap" of the chips and circuit boards). Feeling satisfied, I started making some dinner for us. My friend returned and asked very tepidly "what happened?" Hehe. I told him that, after years of "the machines" having their way, I decided to turn the tables and remind "the machines" how vulnerable they actually were.

Since then, I have learned to work around my anger by increasing my blood-sugar and calories, then turning off all noise, and reading or just thinking.

Still, there are times when I would like to smash more machines (or mobile apps these days). Hehe.

Yeah my iphone nearly met its end while I was trying to call for help earlier. And I'm amazed I've never actually broken a computer screen!! They're made from tuff stuff!

Yeah the aftermath of a sever meltdown is really unpleasant for me. I do the get plenty of rest and drink plenty of fluids thing. Especially stuff with electrolytes.