Sentences with phrase «who numb their pain»

The ones who can not handle the difficulty of making sense of two worlds might be the ones who numb their pain with addictions or early sexual activity, or who suffer from depression.

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Many of the ones who didn't initially die from exposure, or kill themselves because they were permanetly cut off from their friends, family and culture, turned to drugs to numb the pain, and died in many other horrific ways.

He was on his way, after we talked, to the principal's office to counsel a young man in one of his groups who had been burning and cutting himself to numb his emotional pain.

And while I applaud the women who were able to bring life into the world sans pain - numbing drugs, I'm just not sure what having an «unnatural birth» means.

The first one I had triple peak contractions, a doula who was very good at positioning me so at least the mind - numbing pain only lasted about three hours, and a husband who provided counter pressure to my back where most of the pain was.

Consider the doctors and other health care practitioners who eat junk food all day because they don't have time to eat a salad, drink too much at night to numb the pain of what they endure at work each day, are constantly sleep deprived, and suffer emotionally from the loneliness that stems from unhealthy relationships.

As Dr. William Beckham (Keanu Reeves) points out midway into the story, anorectics starve themselves to become numb to feeling; meaning, that something must have happened during the lives of the mostly young people who refuse to eat, and these sick folks simply do not want to feel the pain (their mothers» indifference, perhaps).

Katja tries to numb her pain with drugs but can't; what we see in her expression is someone who's been ripped open.