title: Bloodletting: A Memoir of Secrets, Self-Harm, and Survival
author:  Victoria Leatham 
description: 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." Leatham's searing memoir will resonate with young women struggling with similar problems, as well as those who care about them. <i>(Mar.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: Morrigan’s Blood
  
  By Laura Bickle
  
  
  Morrigan’s Blood
  
  Laura Bickle
  
  Published by Syrenka Publishing LLC
  
  Copyright © 2020, Laura Bickle
  
  Cover art by [Danielle Fine](http://www.daniellefine.com/)
  
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  # Table of Contents
  
  [Title Page](text00001.html)
  
  [Copyright Page](text00001.html)
  
  [CHAPTER 1: TAKEN](text00003.html)
  
  [CHAPTER 2: BLAZE](text00004.html)
  
  [CHAPTER 3: THE OFFERING](text00005.html)
  
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