"At a recent medical conference in Chicago, a team of radiologists from Nationwide Children's Hospital presented intriguing X-ray evidence of a psychological phenomenon — what they believed was a new form of self-injury among teens and adolescents. Eleven out of 505 patients whom the team had treated in more than a decade had inserted objects — from chunks of crayons to unfolded paper clips — under their skin in a behavior the Nationwide team labeled "self-embedding."
我看見的吊詭，是無聲的吶喊；無助地，把企圖收藏的痛楚具體地展現在身體上。收藏，因為害怕面對，然而內心深處隱含著一個更大的恐懼－－「倘若這些痛沒有如實地記錄在不滅的瘡疤上，我怕連自己也會一併失去……」
我不會明白箇中滋味；單是想像那種千絲萬縷、時兒相連，時兒對立的情緒，已叫我暈眩；我，實在無法體會你們的痛。
沿著文章的超連結走到〈時代〉的網站，我看到一道日本年輕人的傷痕……
Self-Injury in JapanPhotographer Kosuke Okahara locates a world of deep despair among young Japanese women.
"In a 2006 study conducted in Kanagawa prefecture, 14.6% of the female high school students surveyed said they had purposely injured themselves at least once with a knife or pointed object, while 6.3% said they had done so at least 10 times."
"Kaori examines the scars on her forearm. Alone in Tokyo, the child of a broken home, she is stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of depression, unemployment and self-harm."
