Bastei Lübbe
Taschenbuch, 238 pages
First Release: 08/28/2010
ISBN: 978-3-404-61670-1
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Anja Abens, Meike Abens
Cutting Lines
Memoir / True Story
An authentic personal account of self-harm addiction
A study conducted by the Oxford University’s Center for Suicide Research reveals that more than one out of ten adolescents between the ages of 15 and 16 intentionally self-injures him- or herself. Cutting or stabbing the skin is the most common form of self-mutilation and belongs like anorexia and bulimia in the category of auto-aggressive behaviors among young people. In CUTTING LINES, author Anja Abens tells the story of her youngest daughter who was self-harming herself for years.
Meike is sixteen: Fed up with school, self-hatred, eating disorders, migraine attacks; she freaks out, breaks mirrors, and cuts her skin until the blood flows. Routinely. Dark times. Perfectly normal for puberty? Mother and daughter share their experiences of a time in their lives, which was marked by painful helplessness, severe crises, and existential fears. And how they found a way out. A book for patients and families, which leaves the reader with the relieving realization that he or she is not an isolated case that is better kept secret, and which offers a possible way out of the despair.
A study conducted by the Oxford University’s Center for Suicide Research reveals that more than one out of ten adolescents between the ages of 15 and 16 intentionally self-injures him- or herself. Cutting or stabbing the skin is the most common form of self-mutilation and belongs like anorexia and bulimia in the category of auto-aggressive behaviors among young people. In CUTTING LINES, author Anja Abens tells the story of her youngest daughter who was self-harming herself for years.
Meike is sixteen: Fed up with school, self-hatred, eating disorders, migraine attacks; she freaks out, breaks mirrors, and cuts her skin until the blood flows. Routinely. Dark times. Perfectly normal for puberty? Mother and daughter share their experiences of a time in their lives, which was marked by painful helplessness, severe crises, and existential fears. And how they found a way out. A book for patients and families, which leaves the reader with the relieving realization that he or she is not an isolated case that is better kept secret, and which offers a possible way out of the despair.
