I made the first cut razor thin. A gentle kiss on virgin skin.

~ Madeleine Kuderick

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Only men would think of cutting themselves to determine who the packleader is. Idiots.

~ Christopher Paolini

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We both knew what it was to hurt our bodies. It's a strange reason to bond with someone, but I think we both needed to feel understood, and, even though we couldn't love ourselves, we could love each other.

~ Melissa C. Water

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When faced with choosing between attributing their pain to “being crazy” and having had abusive parents, clients will choose “crazy” most of the time. Dora, a 38-year-old, was profoundly abused by multiple family perpetrators and has grappled with cutting and eating disordered behaviors for most of her life. She poignantly echoed this dilemma in her the

~ Lisa Ferentz

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You don't deserve the anger you're turning on yourself. Your abuser's the one who does.

~ Cheryl Rainfield

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Unspeakable feelings need to find expression in words. However... verbalization of very intense feelings may be a difficult task.

~ James A. Chu

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A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint

~ Amy Efaw

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And scars will lighten, they'll pale unless you keep rubbing at them...wait long enough, they'll fade.

~ C.f. Joyce

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In Bio last year, I learned that blood is actually a dark maroon when it's inside your body. It's the exposure to oxygen that turns it bright red. And there must have been a lot of oxygen in my bathroom, because that blood was bright, bright red.

~ Leila Sales

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