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Blood- letting by : Victoria Leatham

Blood-letting: a memoir of secrets, self-harm, and survival.

It’s a book that talks about a teen who tried to kill her- self . She tried to cut herself … on the outside she appears to have it all , she’s creative , beautiful , confident , but inside Victoria struggles with a silent , secret , and unbearable pain .   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.

Leatham begins her painful, emotional memoir with her realization, in her late teens, that she was depressed. As her friends and family dismissed her feelings as temporary, she discovered that “harming myself really did make me feel better.” The irresistible urge to cut herself led to a life of medication, stays in psychiatric hospitals (she was diagnosed with a form of bipolar disorder) and more self-destructive behavior, including eating disorders, abusive relationships and frequent career hopping. Just as Leatham would start to feel settled in a new city in her native Australia, or one she recently returned to, the compulsion to cut would begin again, resulting in a hospital stay followed by a move to a different locale. More than 12 years after she began her self-harm, she started a program of cognitive behavioral therapy, and although she initially resisted it, she found that “[s]omething had at last shifted and made it possible for me to begin to protect myself .

I think we always have to look at the bright side of life we have to feel and touch our pain we have to work to fix it.

Every day I look in my mirror and I tell myself that we have to move on and we have to think about the good things and the positive things in our life. It’s hard to forget our pain but we have to.

I know that there are a lot of things that hurt us and make us crazy, but we have to change our selves. We also have to believe in our soul and say yes we can change.

When I started reading this book something from the inside hurt me I felt her pain I don’t know why but I think  I saw the real me inside this book .

I have a positive energy in my life I talk with myself every day and every min, that special thing that make me happy is thinking in positive things …. We have to stand up and touch our pain we can help ourselves in many good things some of people read, cry and confront their problems and pain but not always we can do that thing …. Must of people kill their self just because they can’t explain what they feel .I think just because that Victoria tried to kill herself.

If we have a spiritual faith in our life nothing is possible if we believe in our self the smile will come back in our life and it will shine like the sun in our face .

Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s everything between that makes it all worth living.

The bad thing that Victoria did is that she gave up in young age and I think that it’s a reason to try to kill her self.

Yes she lived a lot of bad things in her life she tried to kill herself in a young age but then she realized that all of this will ending in one day in her life … she started a new life Today Victoria Lethem is a happy, successful thirty something professional .

Many people did that thing but no one had the Bravery that Victoria had

Victoria is a brave person because she shared her story to us, she was honest in her writing and she wasn’t scared to share her story with us.

I liked to share my opinion in this book because we live this accident in our life everyday many teenagers do that things because they don’t have that  Spiritual faith they don’t have hope or maybe they scared because they alone and don’t have that one to talk to …. Maybe they can’t explain what they feel too they have no peace inside their soul. I just want to tell all the teenagers that we still young to think about these damn things we have to live our age and to think about our future life.

We always have to want to be like the sunflower so that even on the darkest day we will stand tall and find the sunlight.

“god didn’t promise days without pain ,laughter without sorrow , or sun without rain , but he did promise strength for the day , comfort for the tears , and light for the way .if god brings you to it , he will bring you through it .” (Quote).

“save me from myself “