Daily writing prompt

What strategies do you use to cope with negative feelings?

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Even though most of my problems turn out to be no big deal, I do have a lot of negative feelings for different reasons. There has recently been a lot of negative things going on in my family right now, (that thankfully don’t involve or aren’t because of me,) and because of those things, I exhibit negative emotions a lot more than usual. As I do tend to have a short temper, a lot of people don’t believe this but I try to use the most basic strategies to cope in these moments. I take deep breaths and try to reason the situation out as it pertains to why something is happening and possible outcomes for the situation, ETC. Normally the way I deal with a situation depends on the severity of it from my point of view. If a situation is not that bad, I will always start ok but then become more nervous the more I think about it. The problem is that the more I think about it, the more it manifests into something much bigger. On the other hand, if a situation looks hopeless for me to solve on the surface, I immediately hit the panic button and have to be talked down sometimes with warnings from mom of trouble if I were to continue the way I was presently acting instead of being able to analyze the situation properly to come up with a solution. Other times, my temper does get the better of me and I go off for whatever reason, (sometimes even randomly,) and to make matters worse, this has happened at all hours of the night in the past. Of course, when this has happened, it has never not resulted in some form of anger from mom. For the most part though, I do try to be happy. I don’t like to inconvenience people but you know what? I have problems sometimes and this just makes me as human as everybody else.