Hi
Any advice on this ? My son is almost 18 , he’s autistic. He struggles with regulating his emotions and he is getting support for this with mentoring.
However , he hits his head when he is really stressed - not every day stress , but when it all bubbles up and leads to a meltdown . He hates that he does this and I see him trying to stop a meltdown and actually tries to stop showing his emotions . He’s doing well in managing them but he gets down about the fact he hits his head when it bubbles up - he’s so down on himself , he has massive Health anxiety and worries about giving himself a brain injury or causing memory loss ( these are his focuses at the moment and I can’t reason with him ) , when he does this he then has a few days where he is really down and convinced he’s insane and should be locked away and doesn’t deserve to be here , or to have friends etc ( I will add he’s certainly not suicidal) . But he has begged me to find a way to stop him hitting himself , he doesn’t want to do it but feels when he’s that angry or stressed it just happens .
Any advice or tools that anyone can recommend ?