Chronic Outbursts

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Hi everyone! Angel here. Just wanted to post this to see if anyone has any suggestions for how to prevent chronic meltdowns. I've been having them ever since I was 17 (I'm almost 23 now for clarification purposes). And they're very intense. Dad now has cancer so I'm starting to really try and stop or at least drastically reduce them.

I found being permanently stoned a good prophylaxis.
I've been told that for a few decades after my late teens I was "the most laid back person they knew"

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It will change your thinking from laser beam to shotgun and wreck your memory but increase your sociability among the stoner community.

True! But I never really got high believe it or not. No matter how much or how little I smoked or ingested. Used to be on an mmj card but its too much money

You're a good candidate for this therapy then
If you can get the calming benefits without being completely wasted, you may be an express demethylator or an ultra-rapid metaboliser.
I find there are a variety of pharmaceuticals to which I react minimally, or even in reverse to most humans

I found my meltdowns often had an element of the unexpected. If something I did not anticipate went wrong, it could trigger an meltdown. However, they were generally brief and in five minutes or less it would be gone. Two strategies I found useful were to anticipate what could go wrong more and absent myself until I calmed down.

Listen to those who tell you positive things about cannabis. I never touched drugs until I got sick and then got on the pharmaceutical train and couldn't get off for years. I never liked cannabis when I was young but after everything I have been through, I now thoroughly believe in it. You just have to get used to it and use it as a medication if you don't like getting high. I would rather have it any day than a pill or injection.

I have never been into drugs, but kind of looked like I took them constantly.

You have to figure out exactly what is triggering them and avoid the triggers

Last time I had a meltdown was in high school. Some jerk guy made an insulting remark, and I walked out of the class and left school and just started walking down the highway. I don't know how far I made it. I think I walked all the way home, 10 miles. I don't remember. I was upset and that must have given me super legs.

Humble pie is what you have to eat. Just accepting that you can't get your way and things aren't going to go your way. This is what I expect on a daily basis, that the best that will happen, is I make it back home alive, and the home is still there in one piece.

And eating up insults like they are pretzels that are salty-spicy.

I just have very low expectations, so I don't have meltdowns anymore. People still insult me periodically, but I have learned to just not react. That makes insulting me, not a fun activity, rather boring actually. Because - no reaction.

I don't think that is what he is talking about. I am pretty sure he is not having temper tantrums because he is spoiled and can't get his way and I don't think he is reacting to people insulting him. I think he is talking about sensory overload where he is having neurological responses to over stimulation. Those are not they types of meltdowns that you can control or decide not to have. They are actual physiological responses that you cannot prevent or control. The only thing you can do is avoid the triggers.