What does it mean when you constantly want to choke yourself?

It doesn't feel suicidal but I think about and feel it when ever personal situations arise or if I'm having panic attacks.

I don't think there's anything wrong with you. I also want to choke myself but I'm not trying to die. Its just when everything seems so wrong, I blame myself for it, and every time I want someone to choke me like I'm trying to compensate something. I want them to punish me but they don't think I'm at fault. So mine is just an urge to feel what its like to be chocked.

>>1 there will always be a time when you want to hurt yourself it's just a kind of a way to control your anger sometimes instead of venting it on others or when you're just frustated with yourself at the time.

>>3 Yeah that sounds pretty plausible. It doesn't sound much different from someone biting their fingernails or picking at skin/scabs. It's probably just a natural reaction your body has when your nervous/stressed.

It's probably the psycological parts of your brain that's causing you to be stressed, and maybe causes you to have a choking feeling. I would reccommend taking time out to relax and do something you enjoy.

I have choked myself, and for me it is like a self-punishment for something I deem I have done wrong. It is certainly not suicidal.

As for the imagining, I get something out of the 'despair' I imagine myself having while being choked, but not such that I actually want to die. There is also something about me feeling guilty, and that guilt being relieved after being assaulted by whomever I feel is wronged by me. I am not a psychologist, however, please take what I say with a grain of salt.

I would also agree with >>3. I am a generally angry person and it is easy to vent on myself.