"See, usually, if I hit my head on something, I feel worse afterwards, help me out here."
"What I do about needing to get my feelings outside of myself is I write them down," she says. "And then I can look at them on paper and they're not chasing each other around in my head, and I can see if they make sense the way I can evaluate a book."
"Are there any things that would help calm you down from there without literally involving hitting your head?"
"In general if you start hurting yourself it will scare people."
"...I guess that does solve that problem, although I still wish you'd think of something else."
"I don't like thinking about you being hurt even if it's you that's doing it and you have a reason, because I love you."
"You wouldn't even try to invent a spell to keep me cool while I was doing it?"
"That's why I'm trying to figure out something that isn't hitting your head."
"Sure. An illusion lightshow or something. Although if you're too upset to write you might be too upset to cast anything and you're often out of mana."
"What if you're upset and out of mana, or too upset to concentrate on a spell?"
"Maybe we will think of something else eventually. Jumping in water isn't that bad."