Callista wrote:
Actually, redirecting to hitting your legs sounds like a very smart solution, at least temporarily. Bruises on your legs aren't going to cause any permanent harm. Your head is a little more sensitive.
When people do something, they do it for a reason. Like any other behavior, your self-injury fulfills some kind of purpose for you. If you want to find a way to stop or redirect it, find out what that purpose is. Then you can find something that can replace your self-injury by serving that same purpose. Once you no longer need self-injury, stopping is just like breaking any other habit--you just have to constantly remind yourself, until you get used to not doing it.
There probably is a way; lots of people have solved self-injury problems. It all depends on what you need that this is doing for you. For me, it was a way to stop meltdowns and handle stress; and part of my solution is to control stress levels better and learn to predict meltdowns before they happened, so I could go somewhere alone and calm down.
You may never find a perfect solution. I still occasionally hurt myself. But the frequency has gone down so much that it's no longer a major problem for me, and I'm satisfied with that. You're already making a good amount of progress, protecting your head like that. It means you probably don't have to worry about major injury anymore, and have more time to solve the problem because it's no longer so dangerous.
thanks.. somtimes i slap my head. before hitting my legs i used to hit doors and walls, 2 doors are dameged and one is smashed of the hinges, and one is completly smashed at the bottom half. my legs have realy realy bad bruises.
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29 Mar 2012, 6:49 pm
