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Last year, tradition turned to trauma as the Masquerade ended 45 minutes early due to crowds jamming Plympton Street. Harvard police shut down the event and broke up other parties thrown by House residents during the event...
...reminiscent of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher. Even though she allows the reader access to the most intimate details of the people she profiles, the scenes are so repetitively horrific that one loses perspective on the problem. Inured to the scenes of physical trauma, the reader has the sensation of watching a car crash, repulsed, but unable to look away...
Cutting becomes addictive to self-injurers. As an emotional high, it doesn't get much better, and Strong compares it to the effects of heroin use. Strong cites studies in which self-injurers show high levels of opiate-like chemicals in their brains. Strong also compares the trauma that many self-injurers experience to the trauma of war veterans, who have high rates of opiate addiction...
...many of the people Strong interviews have had such incredibly traumatic childhood, that their stories become distended from reality for the reader. A typical testimony begins, "Cherie doesn't remember when the abuse began." While Strong does a good job explaining why people having gone through this kind of trauma in childhood would turn to self-mutilation affects those who have experienced more subtle traumas in their childhood, traumas that can be more easily overlooked by parents and caretakers...
...business as usual, why did Italy go through the trauma of trashing Prodi two weeks ago? "Because Italian politics isn't logical," says Burke. "Once again, you've got a very fragile government composed of nine parties, ranging from Communists to the center-right, each of them able to hold D'Alema hostage." In other words, don't bet that the 56th government in 53 years will restore Italy's one-government-per-year average...