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A review by mesy_mark
Cut by Patricia McCormick
2.75
In this book I must say for being a book about cutting the main character seems to know little about it and only did it very little before going to Sea Pines, a mental hospital. I gave it a three because of the audiobook format which is what got me through it. I have read this book both in audio and book format and in audio you can get that there is a little more personality with someone reading the tale.
But for all the research, I've (as someone who has cut for years) never dissociated while cutting and that seems to be a more PTSD reaction than cutting not to say that that can't happen but it would be a better fit if McCormick had a character that also dealt with trauma while also dealing with cutting. And the character that McCormick creates seems to just let everything go by her as if she is not really there. Just doing A and B to get C done but not living a life and I mean that as either surviving life, which is what most cutters are trying to do when they cut or thriving.
The tale did seem a little vague. As if the research into cutting needed to be better planned and while the workings of a mental health facility all run differently I can say that this one seemed like a logical setting. Rules were noted and not widely bending just for story sake. And the condition of the other patients could have gone more in depth and could have used variety. Most were ED girls and other disorders, like depression, is only touched on while other is regard for the really crazy patients which show stigma against mental illness. And that the fact that some also didn't seem to get cutting even though from personal experience many ED individuals do get self-harm to some degree because not everyone is just in for one reason. This limits the development of a full character, not saying that all have to engage in the activity but show sympathy towards mutual self-destruction.
Overall some aspects of the book were good but a lot could have been worked on like character development.
But for all the research, I've (as someone who has cut for years) never dissociated while cutting and that seems to be a more PTSD reaction than cutting not to say that that can't happen but it would be a better fit if McCormick had a character that also dealt with trauma while also dealing with cutting. And the character that McCormick creates seems to just let everything go by her as if she is not really there. Just doing A and B to get C done but not living a life and I mean that as either surviving life, which is what most cutters are trying to do when they cut or thriving.
The tale did seem a little vague. As if the research into cutting needed to be better planned and while the workings of a mental health facility all run differently I can say that this one seemed like a logical setting. Rules were noted and not widely bending just for story sake. And the condition of the other patients could have gone more in depth and could have used variety. Most were ED girls and other disorders, like depression, is only touched on while other is regard for the really crazy patients which show stigma against mental illness. And that the fact that some also didn't seem to get cutting even though from personal experience many ED individuals do get self-harm to some degree because not everyone is just in for one reason. This limits the development of a full character, not saying that all have to engage in the activity but show sympathy towards mutual self-destruction.
Overall some aspects of the book were good but a lot could have been worked on like character development.