Steven Levenkron Quotes

• 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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  Dolor, Significado, Yo

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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 need of help.

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  Pain, Self, Needs

  Steven Levenkron (1999). “Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation”, p.19, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.

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  Opposites, Repetition, Familiarity

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• Qué tonta era la gente para comer. Pensaban que necesitaban comida para tener energía, pero no era así. La energía provenía de la voluntad, del autocontrol.

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  Silly, Self, People

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• Se tumbó boca arriba y paseó los dedos por las costillas, los saltó por el abdomen y aterrizó en los huesos de la pelvis. Los golpeó con los nudillos. [. . .] Puedo oír mis huesos, pensó. Los dedos subieron desde los huesos pélvicos hasta la cintura. El elástico de los calzoncillos apenas tocaba el centro de su abdomen. El puente está casi terminado, pensó. El elástico colgaba suelto alrededor de cada muslo. Más progresos. Juntó las rodillas y las levantó en el aire. Por mucho que las apretara, los muslos no se tocaban.

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  Air, Bridges, Progress

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• She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest." She had to feel it.

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  Pain, Anorexia, Eating Disorder

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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 were razor-sharp. Would they be lost in a sea of fat? She counted her ribs bone by bone. Where would they go?

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  Hands, Sea, Bye

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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. And the winner is... seventy-three!

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  Cutting, Two, Mind

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• Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat could be controlled. She cut four pieces. She'd count to four between each bite.

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  Cutting, Meat, Pieces

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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 to Kessa's new discovery. They knew the secret too. They knew thin was good, thin was strong; thin was safe.

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  Strong, Discovery, Agreement

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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 is the winner.

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  Ganador

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• Kessa ran her fingers over her stomach. Flat. But was it flat enough? Not quite. She still had some way to go. Just to be safe, she told herself. Still, it was nice the way her pelvic bones rose like sharp hills on either side of her stomach. I love bones. Bones are beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Nice, Rose

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