Scream
A scream is rarely aimed, even when it sounds that way. It is what remains when every other way of expressing something has run out, and it arrives faster than thought. The pictures below show what can be done with that force instead.
♂Scream
A boy holds his hands to his head, eyes screwed shut, and screams.
About this visual support
A scream happens when the distance between feeling and language has grown too great. It is not a choice, which is why telling someone off works badly: whoever has already lost their words cannot produce new ones on request. At the same time the sound almost always lands on somebody else in the room, and that person reacts to the noise rather than to what caused it. That is where many conflicts start that were really about something else entirely.
Visual support helps before and after, not during. A picture showing a permitted place, screaming into a pillow or going out into the yard for instance, gives the force a direction decided in advance, while everyone was calm.
A concrete tip is to decide the place together on an ordinary evening when nothing has happened. A decision made in calm can be used in a storm. In Routined calming steps can sit as a short routine to pull up, and the app can be tried for fourteen days at no cost.
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