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When self-harm returns after losing a child

I started cutting myself again after my daughter died because physical pain is the only thing that makes the emotional pain bearable.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The translation of psychic agony into physical sensation offers the illusion of control over suffering that has become otherwise unmanageable.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The death of a child — the unnatural loss?”

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