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Mental Health How come I calm down and my mood changes when I punch myself hard in the head

Ho-Chi-Minh said:
Therapy is woefully underutilized by the mentally ill because it takes work.

Talking about one's problems can be very painful. But exposing what's really going on is really the only way to change behavior to an ideal extent.
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I could not agree more.
 
I agree. At my next psych appointment, I'm going to ask about therapy. I couldn't agree with you more. I will seek help with the underlying issues. I want to get to the root of the problem.
 
Speed King said:
I want to get to the root of the problem.
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And so you shall!<3 Some of the most messed up people I know are the people that are scared to death to look back in their development at the roots of their own misery. We all experience life from the outside in and the inside out and it becomes a tangle that can be pretty daunting to decipher. But those who want to understand their own complicity and change it are the lucky ones--because to them change will come. It doesn't come directly and it doesn't come neatly or predictably, but it does come.:)
 
Thanks, herby! Coming from you, that's quite a compliment! I totally agree that change for the better does occur, if not by the route predicted.

Speed King, my hat is off to you. Therapy is an intricate process, and requires someone who really knows what they're doing, but it truly does help.
 
People self-harm for a reason. When I used to self-harm, back when I was sick, it was a way of making the hardcore painful emotions I was feeling into something concrete and manageable. I couldn't 'fix' or manage mental and emotional pain, but I could turn it into something I could look at and put a bandage on and relate to in a tangible way. It's a coping mechanism. It might not be the best coping mechanism, but nothing that keeps you alive when you're struggling is 'bad'.
 
Well just like people abuse whatever drug for a reason people also self harm for a reason. It's just another coping mechanism really not that much different in that regards as opiates, alcohol or any other drug is. In fact i have seen people who self harmed quit self harming after becoming opiate addicts only to end up doing it worse then ever when in withdrawal.
 
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