[theonemind]

At the edge point, I find it helpful to lie down and not react to any thought, sensation, or feeling until I feel stable. On rare occasions, I feel like I'd want to punch someone in the face just for speaking a word, and when I lie down, I feel the dire need to react to something. I put on a sleep mask, put in ear plugs, put noise cancelling headphones on top of that, and then play a decent volume of white (brown) noise in them, and very carefully do not move, think, or react... and if I do, i'll just go back to not thinking, not reacting to thoughts, not reacting to the repeating jerking urge to get up and do something, and I'll usually fall asleep for a bit. Generally, I've never found this to fail to clear almost any negative state I'm in.

It's just a psychological agitation. Even normal friction, etc. can agitate a physically sore spot, and you should just let up off it to let the agitation subside. Same idea, works great for me.

I actually pretty much do that every day after work to some extent or another, but I'm only really serious about not reacting to anything when I really have some anger/agitation/whatever that needs to dissipate.