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Both books chronicle how disturbingly misunderstood the malady has been. Sufferers have traditionally been met with disgust by doctors, who find their self-injuring offensive. Therapists are often unwelcoming too, mistakenly labeling such people suicidal or dismissing them as "borderline," a catchall category for manipulative, difficult patients with intractable disorders. In reality, the authors say, cutters are people frozen in trauma. More than half of self-injurers are victims of sexual abuse, and most report emotionally abusive or neglected childhoods, the strains of which send them into an emotional grave. "To me, it wasn't the self-injury that...
...have spent the last 10 months mired in presidential scandal and the ugly partisanship of impeachment proceedings. The atmosphere in this country has been one of both negativity, complacency and disgust with the political process. But Americans came out yesterday in unprecedented numbers in several states and they reaffirmed their desire to bring politics back to moderate and decent grounds...
...Despite our disgust, a few aspects cannot be ignored. This is not only about sex, but about trust," Whitman said. "The President's actions have not only damaged him, but every public servant...
Such 12th-grade science is all very well, but Glenn and his fellow humans will be forgiven a few twinges of disgust and fear at the presence of the roach-o-nauts. It's less than two years since the embattled space station Mir was plagued by the presence of a single floating cockroach -- which, not surprisingly, came aboard by accident. NASA moved to calm fears Monday: "They won't be infesting space," laughed payload coordinator Rud Moe. It is, after all, worth $5,000 to the agency if the bugs check in and check out. All the same, perhaps...
...days ago I was walking down Mt. Auburn Street when I noticed a woman staring at her hands with a mixed expression of awe and disgust. I was perplexed. Then I noticed she was coming from an ATM. She was looking at the new $20 bill...