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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.
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Jennifer Jackson
reviewed Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm and Survival on January 16, 2014 Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm and Survival
I just received this book today. I starting reading it at 11pm and finished it at about 2am. It was a truly gripping book that I could not put down. Leatham has really written the book amazingly. I connected with her and wished that all these horrible events didn't have to happen to her. As someone who suffers from self harm, I could really relate to her.
Reading some of the reviews made me quite angry. The only thing stopping me from commenting on one of the ruder ones was the fact it was written almost four years ago. I feel this book is probably one of the best on this topic. You see so many American novels that make having depression cool. None of those delve deep into it, they all just say, I'm a sad teen, wah wah. "Bloodletting" delves deeper into the topic of mental illness and since it's a memoir, not a made-up novel, does pretty well at it. You know that Leatham had to go through tough times throughout most of her life and you don't think it's something cool. You know it's an illness.
I wished the end of the book wasn't so unclear. I wanted everything to be amazing for her. Of course it can't be. It's a summary of her mental illness, and well, mental illnesses never really go away.
This was a very well written book and a really clear insight into why she self harmed and why other people would. It's another book that pushes down the taboo of mental health, without making it sound like a 'cool' thing to have.
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