Word: calm
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...that they simply shut off their emotional spigot. Cutting, they find, is a way to kick-start feelings when the numbness becomes worse than the pain. Other kids say the opposite--that their emotional turmoil is so great that they need something to serve as a bleed valve to calm them down in times of crisis. "I would do it when things got me upset," says Brittany, 17, an outpatient at the Vista Del Mar clinic in west Los Angeles. "At the time it was a relief, until you wake up the next morning, look at your arms and think...
...going to be all right. On the ground outside the shower I noticed a pool of dark red blood; the detainee had apparently cut his wrists with a razor. Sitting on the cellblock steps was a trembling National Guardsman, a kid of no more than 19, trying to calm his nerves with a cigarette...
...shadows. We don’t chat with each other before section, choosing rather to wait with bated breath for the wise professor or TF. We get worried when our friends get a little too passionate about something political and tell them to “calm down.” We look askance at our professors who speak extemporaneously and wish they could just get to the lecture already. We push ourselves through Harvard, not really loving it, but grateful enough for its name that we don’t criticize it. We smile and chat politely with...
Kyle Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec coped with Boston’s unpredictable and transitory weather in the regatta, as winds ranged from dead calm to 30-knot gusts and competitors were doused with heavy rain. Despite the tribulations, Kovacs and Dolbec cruised to first, with 67 points to second-place Tufts’ 83. The duo won four of 17 races and finished in the top five...
...pretty big statement,” Kummer said. “We just stayed calm within our boat and wanted to row well...