Bloodletting: A Memoir Of Secrets, Self-harm, & Survival

This dark, compelling story memoir examines one woman's secret overwhelming desire to physically hurt herself, and chronicles Victoria's stresses and insecurities, as well as the mental anguish that led to her wanting to physically turn on herself.

Available in March 2006 On the outside, she appears to have it all. She's creative, beautiful, confident. But inside Victoria Leatham struggles with silent, secret, and unbearable pain. In her late teens, Leatham is struck with an undeniable urge to cut herself. Oddly, the wounds she inflicts on herself mute the pain she feels inside. This memoir, a darkly humorous and often chilling account, vividly details Leatham's ordeal and reveals her most intimate thoughts as she struggles with cutting and a range of other psychological problems including eating disorders, sexual promiscuity, substance abuse, and bipolar disorder. And finally, it describes her discovery of the psychological secret that helps her escape from this spiral of self-destruction.