Diana repeatedly hurt herself to distract from the pain she felt for not being validated by those she loved. Throughout her life, her parents were not there for her. And then when she married her husband, Prince Charles, he also neglected her. Young girls are trained to internalize anger and men to externalize it. Because boys are raised to repress feelings and emotion, they keep things inside until all the repressed emotion becomes overwhelming, and they explode in seemingly unrelated violence.
Angry girls exhibit rage by harming themselves.
They also hurt themselves by turning anorexic, bulimic, or become involved in abusive relationships. Current statistics show that one out of four girls in high school is in an abusive relationship. It is not uncommon for teenage girls to wear beepers, and be at the beck and call of her boyfriend. Initially, the girl feels very special. She loves the attention and possessiveness.