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[Vanilla]

Yes, sounds like flooding to me.

Observe it in yourself. The flooding won't be under your control, but what you do about it can be managed.

Your body gets used to the hormone rush, so to be effective it escalates and enhances each time. So in essence it gets worse over time.

There are a number of things you can do to calm your system, take a break, observe when you sense it's going to start get away to a quiet place. Warm baths help quieten the hormonal system and moderate exercise eases the adrenaline bursts. Your vitamin B levels will be depleted as these bursts use these vita amoung others, so supplements may help. Time to look after nutrition and get advice, your IC may help point you to some decent resources.

Remember although the flood is natural, there is a reason it happened. It's your way of knowing something is amiss.

By all means apologise for the overreaction but if your boundaries are reasonably infringed, then at a later time you can address that. Just because you flooded doesn't mean there is no cause.

These are some of the things I did:

Before
-went elsewhere (avoided)
-put something in my mouth
- got active in something very distracting
-gym

During
-breathe very deeply
-ground your feet
-project peace if you can
-walked away
- wrote it down
-rang a friend
-went to the loo, splashed cold water on my face and hands
-meditated
-played music loudly

After
-warm bath
-sleep or nap
-ate some vegetables
-watched Ted Talks
-played some relaxation music
-posted
-gentle exercise
-tackled the trigger issue more calmly (often by text)
-GAL

V