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Frustration isn't an emotion that can be dealt with quickly. For some, hindrance immediately becomes outright emotional arousal. Also, it depended on what a person's definition of frustration was.
Plus, how reliable their coping skills moreover self-control were when dealing with whatever was creating their difficulties at the moment. Some individuals had a high tolerance when it came to maintaining their anxiety. Others not so much.
Case in point? Moroha and her younger sister Kiki were currently highly frustrated with their music players. They had for years old iPod shuffles. However, they couldn't get dependable sound out of either of them anymore. They'd bought new earbuds several times, yet it didn't resolve their predicament. Consequently, they'd ordered, off Amazon, new music players.
They ended up doing this because neither could utilize a smartphone to save their lives. Plus, all they desired was music, not a million useless apps. Roughly four days later, their music players arrived. Unfortunately, they had no idea how to program them or transfer music from one device to another—given that their cousins programmed their original players.
Their frustration started mounting once they realized they'd even have to purchase a memory card to get the new ones working. Locating one, cross-referencing to see if it'd work, then paying for the damn things took over an hour.
Because it took that long, they'd have to wait another day to attempt to program them; however, the frustration only increased more when it became undeniable. Neither of their parents had a clue what they were doing. Getting hold of their cousins to ask them to help remained equally frustrating because they kept missing them. Eventually, they're reaching their limit on how much they'd handle.
Even before the music player crisis, their family had other emergencies, including the sewer backing up, which resulted in their bathtub being full of shitty liquid for most of the day. That dilemma took hours to fix—other dilemmas composed of burnout, nightmares, and relationship difficulties. So again, resulting in their stress levels are already maxed out.
Consequently, this dilemma? It pushed them over the edge, and they screamed at everyone. They should've screamed into a pillow. However, that never seemed to cut it for them.
Of course, they ended up offending people by their screaming. Finally, however, they couldn't take it anymore. Eventually, they got a hold of their cousins, who promised to swing by to get the music players so they could program them as soon as possible.
All of the sisters' frustration only seemed to strengthen moreover never end. Therefore tell me, how do you deal with frustration? I hope its non-violent. However, we shall see, won't we?