I had very violent meltdowns when I was younger. Starting around puberty, I also got into the self-hate and self-harm. I had some scarry days when I was in high school, I hate to even think about some of the worst meltdowns. Most of my worst were caused by my parents who were aweful to me for being the "black sheep" athiest child. They would team up on me about not being christian enough, cornering me when I had NO way to speak back or defend myself, which really made me hate myself. Those days I would take the torture, unable to speak at all, until I could get away, then scream and punch my hands to mush on something, or cut. I just really needed to explode, destroy and hurt.
How do you all feel during violent meltdowns? I feel some aspects of rage, but also panic because I feel like I've lost some control. Its like I have some control of my actions, but I cannot stop them or do something else. What I mean is, when a violent meltdown happens, I can't speak and the violence is a given, but if my gf is present and contributing to my meltdown, she is not in danger because I have the presence of mind to hit the wall or myself rather than her (or anyone else for that matter). Are you completely out of control or somewhat in it when you have a meltdown?
I haven't had a violent meltdown in a few years. I may have simply out-grown the violent aspect of my meltdowns, but for what its worth, the subsidance of the violent aspect coinsided with me starting to take low dosage thc. I still have meltdowns, but most are non-verbal/shutdown type meltdowns. They are equally inconvenient, and peope get really confused and bothered when I am standing in front of them and cannot say a word, but people won't call the police for that, so I'll take it.