Memoir of a Mangled Mind

How Concealing My Dissociative Identity Disorder Unleashed Multiple Personalities

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Pub Date 19 Nov 2024 | Archive Date 28 Nov 2024

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Description

When sexual predators target Steve Simmons as a child, his mind fractures into multiple personalities—alters—who give him blackouts as a protective shield.

The abuse ends when he’s fourteen, but two alters begin hijacking his consciousness to live their own lives as a thief and a gay prostitute.

Steve discovers he has multiple personalities but keeps the mental disorder a secret for fear of being institutionalized. That decision grants his doppelgangers free rein to drag him down the paths of crime and debauchery.

To maintain his freedom and reputation, Steve discards his ethical compass in order to conceal his alters’ criminal activities—even after becoming an attorney at one of the world’s premier litigation firms.

This deeply personal memoir lays bare Steve’s childhood sexual assaults and the poor judgment he exercises to hide his mental disorder caused by the trauma.

How will he navigate the road to redemption?

When sexual predators target Steve Simmons as a child, his mind fractures into multiple personalities—alters—who give him blackouts as a protective shield.

The abuse ends when he’s fourteen, but two...


A Note From the Publisher

This title includes childhood sexual abuse, self-harm, adult sexual assault, adult language, and violence.

This title includes childhood sexual abuse, self-harm, adult sexual assault, adult language, and violence.


Advance Praise

“With unflinching honesty, Shelton recounts the complexities of managing his multiple personalities, some of whom led lives of their own, as he navigated adulthood, a legal career, and efforts to conceal his condition. …The way he describes the influence of his alters and their impact on his life creates an intimate portrait that helped me understand DID in ways that no clinical description ever could”

K.C. Finn
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“With unflinching honesty, Shelton recounts the complexities of managing his multiple personalities, some of whom led lives of their own, as he navigated adulthood, a legal career, and efforts to...


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