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Re: Self-harm and mania/hypomania - July 20th 2013, 11:46 AM
Hi Jess, I have a similar experience. I only self harm when I am in a hypomanic/manic state because I have so much energy that I need to get rid of moderately safely- self harm helps with that.

By safely (obviously self harm isn't safe) I mean more safe than what I would do without self harm- I get suicidal when I am low but I don't have the energy to go through with it, however when I'm up I really have the urge to kill myself, so self harm kind of calms that down a little. Also when I'm manic I generally want to do very dangerous things. It doesn't matter what my manic mood is, a depressed-like manic state or an ecstatically happy one, I self harm to appease the immense energy.