good advice or dangerous?

[alien girl]

i learned to control my rage attacks by building up my rage while punching punching bags, and then stopping when the instructor said stop. so i wondered if aspies who slam their heads against the wall can learn to control that urge by tapping the noise that made them frustrated, or thinking about what made them frustrated, and then slamming their heads against soft padded back of the sofa or pillows, harder and harder, and then stopping when someone says to stop.

is this good advice or can it be dangerous?

i get this urge to slam my head against the wall sometimes but usually resist it, and even when i do not hard enough to cause damage. i bite my wrist sometimes. we have a low tolerance for frustration.

 

[Aspergirl4hire]

It would be dangerous for me. According to my chiropractor, a major car accident permanently comprises the skeleton, even if the bones themselves heal. There's scar tissue and minor misalignments thereafter. So slamming your head on anything is dangerous, even if it's soft, because the force driving the head causes the damage, and it doesn't take a lot of force for vertebrae not quite stacked right to damage the nerves running involuntary functions, like digestion and breathing.

Also, I can't trust anyone to know when I should stop. The deal for me is that I should not start. But I'm not a head-banger. I tell myself to stop, get to safety, and rage in private. As I've gotten older, I don't need to do this often.

 

[Nitro]

When a skull gets impacted,the brain is not held firmly in place and it gets bruised as it decelerates against the bone. Boxers become punch drunk as their brain gets deteriorated from repeated blows with a padded glove.

I like the idea of a punching bag,nothing major gets hurt. I also know a lot about brain damage

 

[Suzanne]

I used to punch my head in rage, but NEVER associated it with aspergers. Well, I wouldn't, since I had not even heard of aspergers then.

I stopped when I learned about our Creator and so, being a christian stops me from self harming, even though I still suffer rages.

I think a punch bag is an excellent idea actually and someone I know, who is an nt, grew up fighting and told me that punch bags are good for diverting that anger.