Undeniably, you’ve probably experienced situations where you’ve gotten angry, frustrated, or even anxious over something. It could be dealing with a rude stranger on the street, not being able to solve a tricky maths problem, or even a nerve-racking presentation in front of 100 people the next day!
Whatever it is, there are a plethora of fidget toys and stress toys to help you deal with these situations and they are the perfect tools for relieving these frustrating instances in life.
But if you’re wondering what exactly are stress toys or fidget toys or perhaps you’ve never messed about with one before, here’s a quick overview for you keen folks looking to get your hands on one…
There’s a famous quote that says,
“Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s pain, but it takes away todays peace”
To put it simply, fidget and stress toys are fantastic for making sure your mind is not clouded by anxiety, worry, and frustration. These are factors that can waste your day!
With this in mind, here is a list of my favorite stress toys for anger and anxiety…
Fidget cubes are undoubtedly up there as being the most popular types of fidget toys and they work great if you’re feeling stressed out, angry, or anxious!
They can come in so many variations too making them suit whatever you consider satisfying for you.
Slinkies are possibly one of the oldest toys out there, given their simplicity but also effectiveness in working as a stress toy!
These are great for relieving anger due to the satisfying aspect that they offer. The ability for slinkies to transform into elongated cylindrical spirals can be a beautiful and relieving sight to behold.
Moreover, the sight of them getting longer and longer transforming back into a simple hollow cylinder can be impressive to many fidget fanatics out there!
These fun stress toys can come in numerous colours and sizes. Personally, the rainbow slinky is one of the most satisfying ones from experience given the smooth flow of the colours along the rainbow spectrum as the slinky elongates!
These are such simple but effective stress toys for anxiety!
If you’re looking to let all your anger out but one to do so in a safe manner without damaging your house or letting it all out on someone undeserving of it, squishy balls easily top this list for being the best anger relief stress toys!
Perhaps you’re playing a game. It could be FIFA against your mate or a game of COD (Call Of Duty). Maybe things don’t go your way and you lose a game or get hurt. Whatever it is, these things can cause you to want to throw your controller or keyboard at a wall.
Instead of doing this and making hundreds in damage, just let your anger out on a squishy ball!
These are fun to forcefully squeeze or throw about at an empty wall because they’re super light, difficult to damage, and likely to create minimal damage to your surroundings!
These are potentially the coolest of the stress and fidget toys on this list for numerous reasons.
Firstly, the shear number of things you can do with magnets is groundbreaking!
You can bash them together and they create cool rattling sounds, you can put numerous magnets together to create cool structures, and so forth…
These fidget toys can come in so many types and variations such as magnetic balls.
Check out the video below to see how satisfying magnetic balls are to mess about with!
Just for an idea, these are some different magnet stress toys YOU can buy now:
For those unfamiliar with Tech Decks, these are notorious toys that have been around for a while now! They’re up there as one of the most popular toys in general.
Just for perspective, Tech Decks are to boys what Barbie dolls are to girls. They are synonymous with being fun to play with, especially with skater fanatics.
Essentially, they are mini skateboards that you can use your fingers to ride and create cool tricks and stunts just like a real life-sized skateboard.
They are great to play with on a table or even on a Tech Deck skatepark set whenever you’re bored or have something on your mind that you want to let go of!
If you’ve never watched a satisfying kinetic sand video where the guy cuts the sand, squishes it or create soothing, symmetric patterns on the sand, I highly recommend you check out the video below.
You may be so amazed by this simply yet amazing stress toy that you’ll end up watching the whole hour-long video!
The beauty of kinetic sand lies in their softness and colourful nature. They’re a treat for the eyes and just the satisfaction of moulding it into shapes or slicing it slowly can really calm down any angry person and make their day better!
Last but certainly not least, we couldn’t finish this list off without talking about the iconic fidget spinner. What turned out to go viral all over the world in 2016 is still a fantastic stress toy for relieving anxiety, worries and cleansing the mind of any negative thoughts.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, fidget spinners are simply a stress toy that when held at their centre with your thumb and index finger can spin for a long period of time.
You can get ones that spin for one minute all the way up to potentially half an hour.
What’s beautiful about fidget spinners is the shear variety of spinners out there to buy. You can get pop-culture related fidget spinners, metal fidget spinners with sword style designs, light up fidget spinners and even transforming fidget spinners just to name a few!
Just staring out these awesome gadgets will be sure to make you almost hypnotised to the point that you forget why you’re worrying or anxious about something in the first place!
Whatever gimmicks, quirks or ideas you think of, there’s probably a fidget spinner out there that will manage to incorporate it into it’s design!
With all of these stress toys, it’s easy to choose a huge variety that can suit your preferences and intentions.
Whether you’re someone who loves messing around with sand or tapping magnets together, choose what you’ll enjoy the most and what you think will take your mind off any thoughts that stress you out!
