What do you do when you have a meltdown?

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Like what do I do to prevent the approaching meltdown? Nothing. I simply have it

Otherwise, WHEN I already have it, I usually scream, cry, have angry outburst and things like that.

I usually yell and/or kick things around me and/or I punch things, and after that I usually have a shutdown.

I'm fairly sure that I'm more of a shut-down person. I usually feel like I'm falling inside my own head. Suddenly everything around me is wrong and I lose the ability to process sensory information. I lose pretty much all of my social abilities (can't read people at all, say terrible things, ignore people's attempts to communicate). Everything becomes a source of irritation. I lose track of time, sometimes for days, sometimes for hours, all the while labouring under an overwhelming sense or irritation/rage and panic. I used to self harm. Sometimes I do math to calm down. Distraction can work for a while.... basically, not pretty. I have minor melt-downs which start with me shouting and jumping around and end with me crying... They are typically followed by a shut-down.

Mine are really mild by comparrison. I used to have very violent ones when I was a child but now I am much better at controlling them. I just become suddenly really angry normally just verbally and will charge around the house slamming doors. I will be shaking and feel like there is someone else at the controls.

Unfortunately I have extremely out of control type meltdowns. I can become violent, agressive and destructive. Plates often get smashed during meltdowns. I bite myself and others, I scratch (my old care home had a lady come in to cut my nails!), I charge at people and I usually end up getting restrained. I hate having these 'rage' meltdowns because I always feel like poop afterwords and I think I am evil for what I have done. I have had police attend on one occasion and they have told me if I do it again, I am going to jail. I can't stop it though and I am frightened that I will go to jail. My Mum is trying to convince my social worker to let me go to the specialist women's unit at the autism specific hospital up the road.

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I have HFA, ADHD, OCD & Tourette syndrome. I love animals, especially my bunnies and hamster. I skate in a roller derby team (but I'll try not to bite )

I tend to self harm when I have a meltdown self biting scratching taking sharp objects and cutting myself and punching myself in the face and insulting myself telling myself im worthless a failure etc. Otherwise i shut myself off away from everyone and have a tantrum. This is pretty much what goes on in my head lets say these characters are personas and thoughts Crona (the one with the pink hair being me) Medusa (the lady with the blond hair) representing my negative self hating thoughts on how I think others think of me and last but not least Ragnarok (the black creature that pops out of crona insulting and beating him)representing my own self hating thoughts after manifesting inside me leading to physical self harm. The little black dragon represents the obsticles of everyday life peer pressure anxiety etc. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlEQEqq9yVg[/youtube]