Self harm or injury as an adult?

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Well Ive been reading these forums and back post and just getting a jist of all different things. One thing I was wondering is, do many people on here self injure or harm themselves as adults. I still do and am 24. I hit my head with my fist and hit my head on walls and objects and such. Sometimes hit my head with an object. This sucks and causes my already stressd self to become even more so. I've done this since a kid and it just gets worse, not better.

Do you guys still self harm and why? Is there anything you can so about? Is it better or worse than when you were a kid?

I do. I did not as much when I was a kid. I just feel huge explosive internal pressure when I am overwhelmed or really in a deep depression and I find that the self injurious behavior helps me release that pressure.

That's interesting. I am kinda the same way. When I hit myself it's uncontrollable and I don't know exactly why I do it. Maybe to release the pressure like you. I don't know. To think about it, it's caused from high anxiety and stress and I guess hitting myslef is to assert that anxiety into something less stressful even though it's still very stressful.

Yes, that is exactly what I feel. It's creating a different pain in order to lessen the deeper and more powerful pain from whatever is causing me to be overloaded. It's almost like a distraction so that my brain can be zapped off the track or loop of the first pain and then have a chance to reset itself. When I headbang, it is often an automatic response which I can't always control.