existentialist
Tired and unemotional
OK, so you've got the opposite problem to me! This is what I've come up with, after a little thought...
First off, you're going to need to carve out some "you" space, even just half an hour - and the best way to do that is probably to agree with the rest of your inmates to have some kind of "quiet time" when you're not interacting with each other. Ideally, you can sell this idea to everyone (or at least the other adult), and encourage the notion that having a bit of alone time is a good and healthy thing to do.
It's important that people are able to acknowledge that this is something we all need, and it's important. "Oh, I just wanted to..." isn't going to cut it.
Assuming you can achieve that, then something possibly worth a try is some sort of guided visualisation - the link below gives you a flavour of the kind of thing I'm on about:
Forest Visualization
Go fairly easy on all the breathing, though - you don't want to hyperventilate. And you may want to choose your own "journey" - I chose that one because of all the forest and nature pictures you post.
But the idea is to use the visualisation to take yourself off somewhere else - hence why you will need some quiet space - and just Not Be There for a bit.
Presumably, given your line of work, you've done the E&E and resistance to interrogation course - did they teach you anything on that about being able to "tune out" and absent yourself from all the bullshit going on? It may not have been quite as "woo" as the guided visualisation thing, but it's the same thing: you're disconnecting from the reality of what's going on around you.
The "journey" aspect seems to be important - people tend not to find static visualisations so easy to stay with, but walking through a forest/landscape/other space in your head, visualising what you see, etc., appears to be better at enabling people to stay in it.
I'll give it a bit more thought, but I think the meditative/visualisation thing might be the best option. The other thought I had was, even if it isn't able to be as long, grabbing a nice long shower might give you enough time for a brief bit of tuning out. But hopefully, the rest of your household might be able to see your suggestion as one they could benefit from, too, and they might buy into it on that account - excellent, as you won't have to work so hard to achieve it the next time.
