First off, I apologize that this may be long but I am at a loss for what to do and feel stuck.

My son is 17 months old and has been stuck in this head banging phase and pull me everywhere... Whenever he gets upset about pretty much anything, he bangs his head on the floor/chair/wall/whatever is closest. Once he banged it on the bathroom rug, but it was too soft so he switched to the tile floor. He will move your hand if you try to protect him from hitting something hard/dangerous. This now happens when he wakes up from nap/nighttime and wants up. All in all it happens many times in a day and leaves me feeling terrible because I just can't stop it every time.

Also, he insists on pulling me everywhere around the house. I can sit down for one minute and he will be right there pulling with all his strength to get me to go to wherever he wants to be. When we get there, it is usually just him wanting me to watch him and I can't get anything done or leave the area.

I am exhausted. I feel like some of this is normal behavior but maybe more frequent or extreme. I don't want to sound like a crazy overreactive mom but I can't help but worry if there is something wrong I am missing. It doesn't help that different people have questioned me on it. I am just stuck and feel a little helpless. I barely get a break on my days at home because he only naps 45 minutes-1 hour all day so we are going going going all the time. I will say that I understand that he is trying to communicate his frustrations with the head banging, it just seems so severe sometimes. And I can understand that he wants the security of mom being close, but is it too much? I am expecting baby 2 in January and I can't help but think that this is going to be so hard when that time comes!

Any tips for how I can help him? Do I need to seek help from someone else? Does anyone have any experience with this?