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I measure the success of my work by the way I feel about a film before anyone else has seen it. I think I can trust myself to know when the work is good and deep and interesting and when it isn't.

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Soon I'll be thinner than all of you, she swore to herself. And then I'll be the winner. The thinner is the winner.

Swore, Thinner, Winner
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She began to be reassured by these pains, tangible symbols of her success in becoming thinner than anyone else. Her only identity was being "the skinniest. " She had to feel it.

Anorexia, Eating Disorder, Identity, Pain, Reassured, Symbols

Self-mutilation is a frightening barrier that keeps us from seeing a person who is lost, in pain, and in desperate need of help.

Desperate, Keeps, Needs, Pain, Person, Self

The nerves of the skin send pain signals to the brain to warn us of the danger from and impending injury. In the case of self-inflicted wounding, this pain acts as the body's own defense mechanism to stop one from proceeding in the effort at physical injury. If a person proceeds despite the pain, that means that he or she is motivated by something stronger than the pain, something that makes him or her capable of ignoring or enduring it.

Case, Enduring, Impending, Mean, Pain, Self

Repetition brings familiarity, and familiarity is the opposite of the unknown.

Brings, Familiarity, Opposite, Opposites, Repetition

Kessa began to cut her meat into tiny pieces. As a whole it was unmanageable, frightening; but divided and arranged, the meat could be controlled. She cut four pieces. She'd count to four between each bite.

Count, Cutting, Divided, Meat, Pieces, Tiny
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