It is still very unclear what exactly must occur to cause Soul Bleeding. Auto-Necromancy conducted poorly or without proper precautions commonly may result in it if not the full destruction of one’s Soul. Soul Bleeding is characterized by random and unretrievable losses of self actualization and the essence of personality. This is not memory loss, instead habits and personality traits begin to disappear and while the sentient creature experiencing the phenomenon can remember they exhibited these traits none of them come naturally and must be faked or acted on explicitly. This could be as simple as no longer sticking one’s tongue out when focusing on something, to more extreme cases in which people lose whole motivations, fears and anxieties that previously drove them in life. Even more damaging to some is the possibility of losing Tethers. Their anchorage to the Soul is somehow disreputable via Soul Bleeding and even Sundered Priests can permanently lose their gifts through it. Whether the true cause of the Tether’s loss is a change in the Soul’s very form or the personal essence of one side of the Contract being permanently altered is unknown.
Though Soul Bleeding does not result in becoming a Tzedef the individual in question will eventually lose all that once made them themselves that is not physical. They will struggle to be noticed, found interesting or cared for at all, lacking all aspects of sentience that normally procure these boons from society. Those who it occurs to don’t even truly notice it happen, and they watch the demise of their own sentience with apathy for that is all that is left.
Curing
It is possible to reverse the effects of Soul Bleeding, however it requires the victim to be discovered quickly and to have a strong Tether to a deity or other powerful entity which could aid in repairing their Soul. Rarely is the victim able to determine the problem on their own even in the first stages, and must rely on those around them to catch on to their strange new lack of previously key behaviors.