Blackout Girl - Tracing My Scars from Addiction and Sexual Assault; Second Edition

When she was first assaulted at age twelve, Jennifer Storm turned to alcohol to dull the emotional pain. After a string of childhood traumas, she fell into drug use and self-harm. Once Jennifer finally found treatment after surviving the last of multiple suicide attempts, she discovered that it was possible to heal her shame. Blackout Girl is the heart-breaking, enlightening, and inspiring story of Jennifer''s narrow escape from her own self-destructive instincts when all of the odds, and systems, were stacked against her.