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what is considered self injury behavior?

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i had a exremly intense session with my therapist today. He asked me three times if he had to call the ambulance for me because he said i was self-injuring in front of him. I was feeling extremly enraged at myself and just hitting my two fist against each other really hard and that to him is considered self-injury behavior.
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strannge.
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deleted_user
weird therapist.....get another one....good luck
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deleted_user
I think you need a place where you feel safe releasing your feelings and I certainly think your therapist's office should be one of those places. This doesn't sound like self-injury to me but a release and it sounds like a necessary one.
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They overall question right now is What did you get out of it?

To me I can see how he thought it was SI, but on the other hand you needed the release. Personally I would have walked away from him if I was you.
NobodysHippe
NobodysHippe
So long as you weren't seriously damaging your hands (i.e., breaking bones, or spraining yourself), I wouldn't consider it to be Self Injury.

I know people who would never EVER self injure who do that.

And If I were you, I would find a new therapist...
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But SI could be done without the person actually know they were doing it to relieve themselves.
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