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The Luckiest Girl in the World : A Young Skater Battles Her Self-Destructive Impulses
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Just looking at Katie Roskova you'd think she had it all: she was pretty popular an A-student at an exclusive private school and on her way to becoming a champion figure skater. But there was another Katie--the one she hid from the world--who was having trouble dealing with the mounting pressures of her young life. And it was this Katie who with no other means of expression available to her reacted to her overbearing mother her absent father her unforgiving schedule and her oblivious classmates by turning her self-doubt into self-hatred. And into self-mutilation. In his previous novel The Best Little Girl in the World Steven Levenkron brought insight expertise and sensitivity to the painful subject of anorexia nervosa. Now he applies these same talents to demystifying a condition that is just as heartbreaking and becoming more common everyday. Through his depiction of Katie's self-mutilating behavior--she is called "a cutter" by her peers--and her triumphant road to recovery he offers a compelling profile of a young girl in trouble and much-needed hope to the growing numbers who suffer from this shocking syndrome.
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The Sky Is Falling: A dark but vivid glimpse into a life of Dissociation, Self-Injury, and Incest through the mind of an adolescent.
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What happens when you mix a very traumatic childhood with a very fed up teen looking for a way to cope? You can create a psychopath. Cassidy was like every other normal teenager, except for a few major things. She was neglected by her mother, ill-treated by her father, alienated by her peers, and had a rather gruesome way of dealing with displacement issues. Cassidy's only friends were in her ant farm until she is befriended by a young, eccentric, witty Anna. And a handsome, confident, knowledgeable Jonathan; who initially set out to help her and support her. Cassidy's trust issues starts to interfere with her friendship, and suddenly her routine way of coping with pain begins to manifest into something much more disturbing and horrid. Follow Cassidy through her bizarre tunnel of illusions and nightmares, to a place not many people are familiar with... The dissociative mind.
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Thin Skin
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At 15 Ruby left home got herself an agent and became a film star. Now 20 she is destructive and charming and she cuts herself as a hobby. She has left the man who loves her been fired by her agent and is starring in a film opposite the delectable Asian. It is quite possibly her last chance.
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