I feel like I have been pacing and doomscrolling for hours. I think I’ve burned through like 20 sticks of incense just to watch the smoke. I NEED to do something but there is nothing I want to do.
Normally when it gets this bad I just smoke but I’m out of weed and that probabky isn’t a healthy coping mechanism anyway.
I started wearing earplugs because I started riding motorcycles, now I just try to keep a pair in my pocket because they’re fuckin great. They should be required for most concerts, they’re great for any noisy situation, I find myself leaving them in while I"m doing metal stuff running various power tools, and I’ll end up just sitting down with them in having a drink enjoying the peaceful muted quiet. I wish I started using earplugs when I was a kid, I would probably not have tinnitus now if I had.
edit: also in-ear monitors also work for this, I’ve had a pair of Shure se215s for about a decade that I just replaced. They’re not cheap but they last a long time and they really work to mute outside sounds, I use them both on the motorcycle as well as under earmuffs when running tools or shooting. You can get them in bluetooth flavor too.