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Excerpt from Inside the Dangerously Empty Lives of Teenage Girls: Macleans May 10th, 2010
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Q: Why would successful girls [self-injure]?
A: Because they haven’t been living, they’ve been performing. The girls themselves tell you, “I cut myself because it’s real, it’s not fake.” It’s not a cry for help: most girls don’t want adults knowing they’re cutting, which is why they cut in places we won’t see, like high up on the inner thigh. And they don’t want to kill themselves. There’s research which is quite astonishing to many people: when girls cut themselves, they are getting a release of endogenous opiates - they’re actually getting high.
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1 year () (Permalink)ive always been looked at as the sucessfull teenage girl. you know straight A's outgoing. i was involved in all the school functions. i sung the national anthem at sports events and i was the lead in the school play. People looked up to me, they thought i was perfect. because on the outside thats what it seemed like. But down under all my clothes was reality. self injury. and it broke me because i wanted to be that girl and this was a flaw i couldnt take to dinner if you know what i mean. But eventually it consumed me untill someone saw my upper arm. they told and i was broken down. how could i let this image slip away?but infact the cutting was real it still is. and i lost everything because people didnt want to believe that miss perfect had a terrible obession. One that society is not willing to accept full on.
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I can't say I'm even close to
1 year () (Permalink)I can't say I'm even close to being a sucessful teenage girl, but wow, that's pretty straight forward.
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