Lives Unlived: Stealing Back the Future After Trauma and Loss
Trauma survivors often live simultaneously in actual lives and imagined alternate lives, with dissociative 'might-have-been' realities shaping identity and recovery.
This Book Was "Written Totally Crazy." You Have To Read It.
A COVID-related neuropsychiatric illness produced vivid dissociation, altered perception, fractured identity, and was later transformed into surreal, self-reflective prose.
Dissociation temporarily protects from overwhelming physical pain but becomes harmful when prolonged; gentle, regular embodiment practices help safely return to the body.
