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Originally Posted by RxQueen875
Assuming you're implying to when my illness first showed symptoms. Before I was DX BP, they said I had MDD. But I was showing symptoms at ten when I started self harming. I'm now wondering if I self harmed out of mania and the anger that comes with it? Who knows. But I didn't have my first known manic episode until about age 17, after my MDD DX. If I had it sooner then I didn't know enough to be able to tell and probably shrugged it off and being hyper with insomnia.
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I'd think self-harming could've been that or just a general confusion about strong emotions, expressed as anger and self-harming.
It's a time you start to find "useful", more stable expressions, forming a personality, I believe. My (self-)damaging behaviour started when I was just a few years younger. Depression started when I was about 10 and at 12 it became severe.
But it might've been different for you.