Rocking back and forth

Does anyone else find this comforing? I just had this sudden urge to cut myself and i started rocking back and forth. When I stopped rocking I had the same dizzy numb-mind feeling I get from hurting myself.

Yeah it is comforting...very....I do it a lot as well...I never notice it though. Lol.

Hmm... i've actually never tried it. When I feel like cutting i just do it. But i should try the whole rocking thing, just to see if it helps me out. Thanks for the tip!

~ Tina

Hmmm, I've never tried that. Will def do it next time i feel the urge to cut. Thanks!

Yeah it is very good that you guys are thinking about it....

I rock back and forth and I mumble....it kind of freaks people out but most of the time I'm singing a song in my head, and yeah I get crazy looks for it but that's from my family and friends....I don't do it when I'm out with a group....only when I'm sitting at my house, or one of my friends. I really never know when I'm doing it. My boyfriend will useally just kind of put his arm around me and pull me toward him and I lay on his lap and fall asleep....maybe that's why I do it....I'm tired......*shrugs* I don't know why I do half the things I do.....lol

But yeah you should try it....sing a song to yourself while you do it, or I also think or something great that has happened to me....also helps b/c when you snap out of the daze, you can't really remember why you started it....you know?

I actually havent cut myelf in a few months and last night was the first time I had ever started rocking. I stopped because I wanted attention and I needed to know who was my friend and who wasnt so I kept rubber bands on my wrist of the poeple who told me to stop.

since I just spent a few hours rocking, I wonder if it can be bad too.. because now I have a bit of a tummy ache.

i rock back and forth standing up....

sometimes i rock back and forth when im upset, but i never really relized it helped until i thought about it, and i think it really does. it sort of feels like youre floating, like nothing can hurt you.

I think its prolly a comforting feeling relating back to childhood. I mean parents always seem to be rocking their children. Makes u feel safe.

That's really funny because that was what I was coming in here to post....dang it!

Lol...so in other words....I totally agree with you!

Plus its like how you sleep better next to some household appliance that hums because when you were in your mother's stomach there were all the sounds of her body plus outside sounds and the hum sort of replicates those sounds. With rocking, its just like the rocking of a mother's movements, if that makes sense.