num_pages: 232
description: This book is about people who deliberately cut their skin, burn themselves, &amp; break their own bones. They do it systematically for many years, &amp; without help they can rarely stop. Many have lived through severe forms of emotional or physical childhood abuse. Estimates are that more than two million Americans are chronic self-injurers. In this book, women &amp; men, young &amp; old, explain the reasons they hurt themselves, the relief it sometimes brings them, &amp; why they feel they cannot stop. The author explains how cutting can become a coping mechanism for dealing with emotional pain &amp; gaining control over an out-of-control mind &amp; body. Includes information on what people can do to start healing.
language: English
title: A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain
titlecomplete: A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain
genres: Biography, Mental Health, Psychology, Nonfiction, Science, Health, Memoir, Self Help, Mental Illness, Medical
ratings_count: 2418
publisher: Viking/Penguin