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The Addiction of the Nineties: a Trip through the Dark Realm of Body Modification
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The Addiction of the Nineties: a Trip through the Dark Realm of Body Modification A fifteen year old girl named Lindsay walks into a bathroom and stares at herself in the mirror. She notices the razor blade and looks at herself again, seeing nothing more than a body without a soul. Her parents divorced and seeing herself as completely unattractive, she starts to cut herself. At first it hurts but she continues to cut until she bleeds and realizes that there is life within her. She has never felt so alive (Strong 36- 37). Lindsay was displeased not only within the life she lived, but within herself as well. To prove to herself that she was indeed alive, she chooses to cut herself. In the book A Bright Red Scream, by Marilee Strong, it explains that, "researchers have begun to uncover the complex ways in which cutting provides both psychological...
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