Posted by bob on March 15, 2000, at 21:22:53
In reply to Re: noa - self injury, posted by Cynthia on March 15, 2000, at 10:54:12
My therapist has done a lot of work with adolescent teen girls and various forms of self-injury. She told me once that there are a number of reasons why someone would do this ... but the one reason I identified with was pain control. Creating pain that drowns out the pain that just happens to me without my understanding is just part of it -- knowing that *I* am hurting myself...knowing the cause, feeling (mistakenly) that I have some control over it, thinking that it's all some rational process that I understand perfectly well actually gives me some pleasure in the pain I can inflict upon myself. In that oh-so-twisted way, its more rewarding than it is painful.
eke!
bob
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