About hitting/banging head.

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I don't know about you but when I'm overloaded, when I have some sort of internal meltdown, when I'm extremely anxious or annoyed etc, I sort of lose control and sometimes end up hitting my head with my fists or banging my head against walls. Recently I've started to worry that it might accidentally cause some kind of head injury. Is that something I should be worried about and how can I stop myself from hitting/banging my head?

Thanks.

Yeah I did that when anxious or frustrated but never sustained a head injury.
I can't clearly remember how I was able to stop myself but I believe it was something I grew out of, like a phase I guess.
EDIT: This cooled down at the end of my teen years but your 21 so I can't really say if there's anything from my own coping techniques which helped me.

My boyfriend's been having some luck with working on redirecting instead of hitting his head hitting his legs instead. It's not as good as not hitting himself at all, but if it has to be somewhere, legs won't have any sort of head injury.

I slap myself in the face - hard. I've never done it in public, but my wife hates it nonetheless.

I hit myself in the head with the heels of my hand when I'm feeling extremely frustrated. It's probably more likely that I'll bruise/injure my hands than give myself a concussion. I've whacked myself in the head with a book on occasion. Not a good idea.

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Between the plain accidental head injuries I managed as a child and the crazy meltdown phase I went through when my aspergers was the reason I lost my scholarship and couldn't maintain the only job I could get and my parents (like always) treated everything like bad behavior in a ten year old, I can say fairly confidently that it is difficult to produce a real head injury without hitting the weak parts of the skull (temples, crown, back of the head after the skull ends). If you restrain yourself to using your hands on the hard parts of your head, you're probably okay.

I wish I could tell you, but after wracking my brain, all I could come up with was that I didn't hit my head nearly as much when I smoked. But that's not much of a solution. I have wondered the same thing about the drain bamage.

I did this all the time and once gave myself a black eye and people thought my parents were abusing me. Ever since taking meds I've become more subdued in regard to banging my head but hitherto it was something I always did during a classic meltdown.

It been a long while since I have actually hit myself in the head during a meltdown. I often want to but when I was going through puberty I did it a lot and it really scared my mother so I redirected to slamming doors. I hope she finds that less scary.

It takes a lot to push me over the edge but when my son was a baby he hardly slept and shrieked non-stop unless I was giving him 110% of my attention. The shrieking caused me frequent physical pain and I was always sleep deprived. Add to that the need for me to keep him quiet all night so that my partner could get ample sleep on work nights and him occasionally putting me in very uncomfortable situations where I was expected to keep our son (who is autistic though I didn't know it at the time) quiet (like overnights in hotels and in restaurants while visiting with his family). I got to the point where I was frequently punching myself in the legs and squeezing my arms leaving bruises on my arms and legs, and when it was the worst I'd isolate myself and slap and punch myself in the face. I knew it was getting to be a problem when I started seeing bruises on my face, I forced myself to do alternate things like hitting the floor or a mattress because I didn't want people to think my partner was hitting me. I've always slapped myself in the face when I need to get up and have trouble waking up and getting out of bed, but that never left marks.

I used to do it a lot when I was younger.I don't do it as much unless I have a very bad melt down and am angry at myself.I would punch myself in the face and find a hard surface like a brick wall and bang my head against it followed by scratching my arms untill blood is drawn.Last incident was 6 months ago when I failed my math class even though I studied hard for counless nights and still failed.

I did this too,when I was pushed to far and way stressed out.I would hit my head with my fists,other objects,and bang it against the floor or wall.I haven't had the urge since I started taking 15mg of Lexapro.I also try to avoid stress like the plague(why I isolate myself).

Yes, happens to me.

Whether it's dangerous depends on how hard you're hitting your head, and where. Your brain is very well protected--your scalp is bouncy and elastic; then your skull; then a tough fibrous covering; then a fluid-filled space; and within that floats your brain. It takes a good deal of force to cause bruising to the brain. Your eyes are actually more vulnerable--your retinas specifically. You can injure your eyes if you bang your head too hard or too often.

Just hitting your head with your hands is probably not going to hurt you that much because you aren't really hitting your head at an angle that lets you put a lot of force behind the blow. You may bruise yourself, but I don't think you'll give yourself a concussion. That's not to say you shouldn't try to find ways to stop, because you *will* give yourself a headache and a sore neck, and that can ruin the rest of your day.

If you're actually headbutting walls at full force, it's probably time to invest in a helmet.