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Abused children discover at some point that the feeling of perceived (and sometimes real, as in Janine’s, Haddock’s, and Melinda’s case studies) threats of death and abandonment cannot be abated with ordinary means of self-soothing. They learn at some point that these overwhelming feelings of fear and despair may be most effectively terminated by a major jolt to the body. Some survivors experience this result through the deliberate infliction of injury. These repetitive gestures and forms of attacks on the body seem to develop most commonly in those victims whose abuse began early in childhood.⁸⁹ Observe the cases of Janine, Natalie, Melinda, and Haddock, all of whom were abused by age four.