Posted by Noa on July 3, 2000, at 18:41:51
In reply to Cutting episodes, posted by tina on July 3, 2000, at 18:14:39
One difference that comes to mind between coping with cutting/scraping yourself and coping with what life throws your way, is the issue of predictability and control.
Have you ever read Isabel Allende? In one of her books (one of the Eva Luna books, or House of the Spirits, I am not sure which), the character, as a little girl, describes how she learns from an older brother, to inflict pain on herself. The brother had studied under some easter ascetic sect while traveling in the east, and she learns from him to test her strength by enduring more and more painful things. I will have to find the passage and see how she describes it.
Have you read Cutting, by Levenkron?
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