“What I wanted was a simple response. I didn’t want to feel, that was too difficult. I wanted to hurt, I wanted real, tangible, physical pain. That I could understand.” — Victoria Leatham Copy Share Image
“If people could just understand how it actually felt to be depressed, obsessed, frightened, out of control, maybe they’d be more tolerant, more understanding.” — Victoria Leatham Copy Share Image
“Have you ever had a lyric from a really crappy song or advertising jingle get stuck in your head? Something that just won't go away, no matter how much you don't want it to be there? Imagine if, instead of a silly piece of music, it was an image. Imagine that image was something you found disturbing; say, rivers of… — Victoria Leatham Copy Share
“I didn’t feel that I had any good qualities. Or rather, none were good enough. Nothing I did or said was good enough, but… — Victoria Leatham Copy Share Image
“I had no idea that the simple act of running a sharp blade across my wrist would change everything so completely. I wasn’t after… — Victoria Leatham Copy Share Image
“For the first time in months, I felt together. Sharp. In hurting myself, I had at last found a way to release the pressure.… — Victoria Leatham Copy Share Image
“Relief was what I was looking for that day, and I didn’t care how I got it. What I wanted - what I needed… — Victoria Leatham Copy Share Image
“Some days, it was enough just to know that I had a packet of blades in the house. They were a cold, very sharp,… — Victoria Leatham Copy Share Image
“An increasingly large part of me believed that this was it, this was my life and it wasn’t going to get better. The problem… — Victoria Leatham Copy Share Image
“What I wanted was a simple response. I didn’t want to feel, that was too difficult. I wanted to hurt, I wanted real, tangible,… — Victoria Leatham Copy Share Image
