Others taking your "services"/attention for grante

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Basically what the title states.

People often come to me to rage or rant about some silly issue, problems or alike. I usually don't have any big problem with that unless I'm tired, stressed out or just angry to begin with or it is happening too often. It sounds like some self-complimenting (and I usually try to avoid saying so), but I'm a nice person and if it helps the other one, I'll endure that.

So, at the moment I'm stressed (dateline to hand in some works to make it into uni, if I don't make it, I have to wait until next year) angry (suddenly I'm center of everyone's attention it seems, my back hurts, knees hurt, and I think I am getting a cold too and my family changed their attitude from "don't worry if you won't make it into uni this year, in that case use the time to refine your skills" to "you must make it this year - no matter what") and I'm tired (during the past few days I had sleep issues, most likely because of the stress).

Even though I told everyone to prepare that I will be absolutely disconnected from anything around me and want to be left alone to focus on my work, very few people totally don't seem to get it (not naming anyone).

Instead in rare cases in which I forgot to lock my door someone enters my room (apparently without any point in that) and if I'm not absolutely straight to the point and rude (which I usually want to avoid), the person won't go but sit there and distract me from my work purely by existence (it wouldn't be an issue if I wasn't stressed).

At other times I'm getting contacted only to be a shoulder to cry on, but I told the people around me that in the current state I am not capable of listening nor cheering up (at which I'm lousy anyway, as I have no idea what to say, so I wonder why people want me to cheer them up in the first place)!

And if they get the reaction they actually should be expecting due to my numerous warnings beforehand (which is barely a reaction at all and just a "sorry, can't right now") they get mad and feel insulted just because they don't get the "service" they usually do?
Seriously, what is that supposed to be! It enraged me quite a lot (especially since I was already "under high voltage" under my surface since I almost messed up a work due to having had a person in my room) and I have to note that it was a chainreaction of people feeling insulted, didn't make it any better, so I wonder a bit if I did anything wrong.

Of course I can't dedicate the usual amounts of time to them as before as I have to work to make it, that means I won't check W or X and I won't listen to a rant about Y and Z - and I won't be able to do any of these with any other letters of the alphabet or combinations of such! But I told them very often and would have welcomed a bit respect in those regards!

99% of the time the aforementioned people are always nice (and believe me if I tell you that they're rather close to me and I know them well), but I think they already got too used to my calm nature and acting all insulted even though I warned them some times beforehand is really... I won't say what, you probably know what I would like to say anyway but I'm actually not a fan of vulgar language. Most likely they will forget about it in one or two days - if they didn't already. But at the moment I'm the one that feels insulted!

I feel like they seem to think that just because I don't show emotions and can stay calm when everyone rages around me, it means that they can spam me with their emotions as much as they like and that this doesn't bother me at all and doesn't make me exhausted in any way - but in that case they're terribly wrong!

Now I really wonder what these people would do, if I would stop existing from one moment to another, would they drown in their own problems and complaints?

At some point I also wonder how they would react if I would spam them with my emotions and have an "angry rant-moment" when they totally don't have the time, nor patience, nor capacities for that.
The next time someone will try to start to rant about something or act insulted when I don't react on their rant I'm definitely not going to stay calm, I told them way too often by now and I have the right to get angry too...

Sorry in case this post seems confusing, I'm really tired and just had to get rid of this before going to sleep.

Can anyone relate to others getting too used to ones' "services" and not understanding when they are not available for once/acting insulted when they don't get them even though there is a good reason why?

How good are you at stating your limits before you get overwhelmed and overloaded by others. Would a "do not disturb just now" sign help?

You need to designate how you will allow others to treat you, period. It sounds like you need more practice saying no.

To take a negative view on things, some people are thoughtful and caring, most people however are pretty selfish. Its all about what is important to them not what is important to you. Thus it is likely they are too involved in what their problem is to think about your need to study and stuff right now.
Also, and this is just my view again, people like to put people on a sort of 'pecking order' I call it, and so those who are quiet and calm are expected to always act that way and if you suddenly change they get all upset and try to put you back where you were. Where as someone loud and stubborn is usually expected to be that way, so people just accept it.

I say blank them out and stay strong, you don't need their added stress and you know you're a nice person 99% of the time and well done with that! I'd say i'm only nice 50% nice hah!