I know hitting my head will kill me one day.

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I can't stop doing it when I'm angry..

Suck it up and wear a helmet.

Seriously. Becoming an adult doesn't mean that we stop having problems. It means that we take responsibility for dealing with them. This doesn't always mean we do it alone. Sometimes we get help.

I have had terrible problems dealing with my intense emotions. I have self harmed. Dialectical Behavior Therapy helped me. (I call it diabolical behavior therapy, lol) If you want to know more about this, let me know and I'll say more.

When something helps you feel calm, take note and do more of it. Especially when you have had a blow to your emotions like I just did. I'm going to go watch some old star trek and I have some calming herbs that I use. And I took a warm shower. And I'm here online typing to people who have problems like mine. And I have some facebook friends who will call me if I say "help. I feel like hurting myself. Would you call me and spend 5 minutes with me while I calm down?" I only had to do that once, but it did work. It was humiliating, but I'd rather be embarrassed than dead.

There are a ton of things you can do that won't hurt you if you need intense physical feedback. Swinging, cold packs, body brushes. I know, it sounds babyish, but who cares! Excuse my language, but F* what other people think! You do what you need to to keep yourself safe.

If you keep hitting your head without a helmet, you will be more likely to cause yourself an injury called Traumatic Brain Injury, also known as TBI, than to kill yourself. It is very rare for a person to hit their head hard enough to kill themselves. But TBI is really hard. TBI causes more pain. It causes intense headaches and depression. It won't kill you, it will just make your life harder. Sorry to be all scary, but that's the truth. I hope you find a better way of dealing with your intense emotion. We don't know each other, but I can understand the urge and I really do hope you don't have to go through this for long.

Have you talked to your doctor about this?

For some reason aspies naturally tend to self harm when they freak out or get really mad. We never died of it though, a part from deliberate suicide.

I think the reason for this is that the intense physical sensory input distracts us from emotional pain. NTs do it to, but nowhere near as frequently. Simple physical pain is a great neurological distraction.

lots of NTs and otherwise 'cut' and engage in other methods of self harm.. i've never cut besides carving אחד on my arm once, and don't plan to. but i have liked to pinch my right forearm whenever i'm stressed and sort of "wipe" the blood that comes out of it. have a few scars scattered about. other than that, i don't really "show" my anger. not mush has really angered me recently besides...certain very recent events on this very site.

you might not hit your head hard enough to kill yourself outright but if you do see it becomes a problem, please invest in a helmet or do more of that calms you...brain injuries, concussions, plain dizziness, that's not fun. bruises too. i remember earlier in my senior year, i was stressed as hell and was banging my head on the lockers (i think i hit a few knobs) and i had a dull pain for the rest of the school day.

even plain head-banging as in, the type done by musicians, whipping their long hair back and forth, that's been known to cause nastiness.

I get things pierced periodically to dull emotional pain for awhile.