Book Description
Dear Reader,
How do you deal with wounds neither seen nor understood by others?
What do you do when your thoughts are not your own?
Did it even really happen – that thing you never think about anymore?
And who are you in those times when you’re not yourself?
This is, at its core, a book about human experience; about some of the most painful ordeals that life – often through other people – can inflict. Trauma shapes us in ways we never wanted to know but that uniquely define the very experience of life of those who carry it.
This book is a statement on living with a dissociative disorder resulting from complex trauma.
It is an act of advocacy for victims of abuse, suffering from its impacts decades later, and for everyone who struggles with physical and mental disabilities – still way too often stigmatisised.
It is an attempt at explaining the experience of the fractured self, the blur of amnesia of dissociated memories, and the way a mind driven by trauma into a plurality of identities sees, feels, and lives in the world and in itself.
This book is an appeal for respect for each other’s identities and hidden struggles. It is a story that, for many, is a daily reality.
May it make a difference, however small.
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