text: In this article, we propose that NSSI and other kinds of paradox- 
  ical behaviors might also be conceptualized in similar ways, i.e. as 
  other cases in which a person intentionally changes her bodily 
  and interoceptive sensations, in order to reduce excessive bodily 
  and interoceptive uncertainty (but also more broadly to modulate 
  affective and physiological states that are otherwise dysregulated, 
  e.g. to decrease the excessive intensity of bodily sensations in 
  hyperarousal). 
  
  In the next sections, we first discuss NSSI behaviors by focusing 
  on the fact that they might occur in non-clinical individuals. We 
  will highlight that this could be not only especially the case dur- 
  ing adolescence—a period of life during which people experience 
  various kinds of uncertainties (e.g. their bodies, the self, their 
  social status, and interpersonal relationships), but also more spec- 
  ulatively during other periods of life associated with substantial 
  changes and uncertainty, such as the perimenopause–menopause 
  transition period in women. Then, in the subsequent section, 
  we introduce the main tenets of active inference by focusing on 
  its proposed mechanisms for interoceptive processing and uncer- 
  tainty reduction. Finally, we discuss how the active inference 
  framework might help conceptualize NSSI as a possible strategy 
  to reduce uncertainty; for example, the uncertainty that some 
  (non-clinical populations of) adolescents might strive to cope with 
  during their transition to adulthood. 