It is definately frustrating and heartbreaking to see your beautiful child trying to harm themselves. My daughter Matilda has been throwing self harm tantrums since she was 20 months until... a few weeks ago.

She would breath hold until she passed out. She would run into walls, corners of furniture, into door frames. and she would pull hair out, and thrash around. I found it really hard to watch.

We took everything out of her bedroom except a mattress on the floor and would put her in her room when it happened and I would sit next to the closed door. When she would calm down she would come over for a cuddle. The only way we survived it was having a padded room for her for a few months, then again Matilda threw 3-4 self-harm tantrums a day for a while, then she went down to daily self harm tantrums. Throughout that time she also had normal tanties.

Its heartbreaking but they have to go through it as well. Its part of their development & unfortunately some of them do things that can harm themselves. *hugs* We went for help through our GP and Triple P when things got really bad, I would suggest if they get too hard to handle you find help as well.