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   %SELF VIOLENCE MASOCHISTS INTEGRITY JUDGE REJECT+931008
      %CONDEMN PUNISH EXCOMMUNICATE FAIL WEAK LIMIT 931008

     There  are  people who do inflict  physical  violence
upon themselves  in  strange efforts to punish  themselves
for real or imagined  failings or limitations;  as if such
physical violence would in  some way atone for their  real
or imagined failings or limitations.

     Non-physical violence takes many forms:

     1.  Judgmentalism, legalism, condemnations.

     2.  Rejections, excommunication, banishments.

     3.  Alienation, estrangement, misunderstandings.

     It  is often unclear to people who are healthy how it
might  be  possible  for a  person  to  be  non-physically
violent  in  these  ways toward themselves.   It  is   not
always  possible  for healthy to imagine the many ways  in
which people can become split into parts which attack each
other  and/or  play the roles of attacker  and  submissive
victim.

     Some people  learn all too well how to play the  role
of victim while  other  people  play  the  role of violent
attacker.    Other people learn how to play both roles  in
alternation with two aspects of themselves playing each of
the two roles toward the other aspect.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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