# Irritability Irritable? ## Interventions... - [[gratitude]] - Chances are you need to cry. It'll help. - change your setting / [[leave the house]] - Anything that releases energy([[dancing]], [[singing|sing]], [[exercise]]) - Anything that helps with nervousness - [[St Johns Wort]] helped in the past. - Chances are if you are irritable you are also a little tired and having a hard time focusing - Avoid... computer - Possibly counter productive - ## Describe your body and breath - ## Have you been pissy with someone? Chances are even if you drop your pissiness it is going to come back around from them. I would suggest taking space being patient when it comes back around. One of the problems with irritability is that it seems to lead the other to [[averting gaze]] First aid? - Tea is a good option. Tiny bit of food (truly just a tiny bit). I find it quite scary, in others and myself. It feels like a harbinger of worse stuff ahead (while that has been true, it need not be). When I am at my worse I am irritable. I struggled with irritability hard in the past. The worst times of life have often been around irritability. [[emotions are constructed]], you can [[Let go of what does not serve you|let go]]. ## What is the good in irritability? - It is a #Cue - You notice [[friction]] - You have an opportunity to [[practice]] - [[rough seas make great sailors]] ## States it tends to show up with... [[frustration]], [[anxiety]], ?[[Depression - the fog]], [[muscle tightness]], [[exhausted]], shallow breathing, [[mania]], [[mood swings]], [[disappointment]] ## What came before the irritability? - x ## It has tended to happen when... - After I've excercised a ton - After I haven't slept much - Near people I don't particularly want to be around - Near people known to me when I can't be alone - has tended to happen at the end of travel - when no clear timeline is set and I'm left waiting - when I'm in pain