For trying to come down a bit... If I can manage it, I try to do something that is pleasant and very importantly, something highly unlikely to cause any frustrations. Because experience has taught again and again (etc. to infinity... ) that when the least glitch comes, I will go off. Not good.

As far as not wanting to go out because people are annoying you... it's not rude. It's doing what you need to for yourself. When I get like this, I think of it as a "self quarantine"... for their sake and mine. As this tends to be a very agitated state, I find it gives me a bit more space and keeps me from the regret of exploding at someone, or wreaking havoc on things.

(And hear ya on the annoying oneself... many's the night I go to bed, not because I'm tired, but because I just can't deal with myself one more minute that day.)

Hope you are feeling better soon, blueoctober...