Due to research in other arenas in my life, I was thinking about
eczema and psoriasis this morning. I’ve read that several people who
have cleaned up their diets and such are still struggling with the
condition. I started wondering about emotional conditions. If stress
and high emotion can cause heart palpitations, ulcers, upset stomachs
and the like, why not a skin condition or flare up?
Further on down that path, I started thinking about all the people in
the world with all of their various ‘coping’ methods whether good or
ill… And that lead me to a very specific coping mechanism:
self-mutilation, self-harm, cutting, burning…. whatever you would
like to call it.
Some research shows that ‘cutters’ (their term not mine) are
predominantly young women, and that typically sometime after the
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