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The one novel she published in that period, Physical Culture, describes levels of self-mutilation that put it over the top at a time when "transgressive" fiction was supposedly in vogue.
Madison Smartt Bell: A Shape of Things to Come Madison Smartt Bell 2011
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At least one-fourth of all U.S. teenage girls are suffering from self-mutilation, eating disorders, significant depression, or serious consideration of suicide...
Stephanie Armstrong: It's Cool to Skip Lunch Stephanie Armstrong 2011
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Suicide has become the number one cause of death among young people in China, and gruesome tales of woe--from murder to self-mutilation--have become all-too common for Chinese students.
Michael Levy: Amy Chua Vs. The Talmud Michael Levy 2011
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The one novel she published in that period, Physical Culture, describes levels of self-mutilation that put it over the top at a time when "transgressive" fiction was supposedly in vogue.
Madison Smartt Bell: A Shape of Things to Come Madison Smartt Bell 2011
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When done poorly, they can make parents contemplate self-mutilation.
Making a Panda Talk Jonathan Aibel 2011
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Suicide has become the number one cause of death among young people in China, and gruesome tales of woe--from murder to self-mutilation--have become all-too common for Chinese students.
Michael Levy: Amy Chua Vs. The Talmud Michael Levy 2011
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Considering how I was dressed and my stories of violent mania coupled with the self-mutilation, I was pretty dumb not to see this coming.
Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011
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I chose silence for Isabelle rather than anorexia, or bulimia, or self-mutilation, or addiction, because I felt that readers would be less likely to have pre-conceived notions about it.
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Rotterdam art "Ibasyo—Kosuke Okahara" is the latest series of photographs by the Japanese photojournalist, depicting the lives of six young Japanese women wrestling with self-mutilation.
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It was all vampires and suicide and self-mutilation, this dark, dark stuff.
Darkness Too Visible Meghan Cox Gurdon 2011
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