
   The diagnostic criteria for Repetitive Self-Harm Syndrome include: 
     * preoccupation with physically harming oneself
     * repeated failure to resist impulses to destroy or alter one's body
       tissue
     * increasing tension right before, and a sense of relief after,
       self-harm
     * no association between suicidal intent and the act of self-harm
     * not a response to mental retardation, delusion, hallucination
       
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