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Title: finally understood!?
Review: a warning: this book CAN be a trigger. for you self-injurers, i'd like to reiterate another reviewer's warning that you should be careful in reading it.this book makes me feel understood. it includes my age group and actually made me feel BETTER about myself when/after reading it. most self-injurers, the book says, are intelligent women. how better to start the book off than with a compliment? it resonated well.the book uses anectodal text as well as very thorough information from therapists, doctors and other "degrees". it helped me to understand why i do this (though i really already knew), that i am not really bizarre or alone and that SOMEONE can understand me. that was a relief. i know many people who have self-injured, but very few, if any, who have done it continuously over a number of years.perhaps it is the difference in gender that separates this book from levenkron's "cutting", but i feel better understood as well as validated. i am someone. i am not my disease.
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