"The nerves of the skin send pain signals……" — Steven Levenkron
"The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it."
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12 Quotes by Steven Levenkron
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From the newsstands a dozen models smiled up at her from a dozen magazine covers, smiled in thin-faced, high-cheekboned agreement…
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Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate…
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Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.
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She lay on her back and walked her fingers down her ribs, skipped them over her abdomen, and landed on…
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She'd lost two more pounds. A picture of the models she'd cut out of the magazine flashed through Kessa's mind.…
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Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way…
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How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn't. Energy came from will,…
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Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner…
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Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged,…
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She ran her hands over her body as if to bid it good-bye. The hipbones rising from a shrunken stomach…
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She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her…
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