If you've lived with someone who seems to change like the wind—loving one moment, explosive the next—you may know the silent exhaustion of walking on emotional eggshells. You may have questioned your memory, your intentions, even your worth. And if you’ve lived this way for long enough, you know it doesn’t just bruise you—it reshapes you.
Our family did not set out to become students of mental health. But life doesn’t always give you a choice. After a harrowing incident, we faced truths hiding in plain sight for years. Diagnoses like Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Bipolar Disorder (BD), and Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) were no longer clinical labels in someone else’s story—they were explanations for the chaos we had endured, and the first keys toward healing.
In therapy, we were introduced to two books that changed everything:
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Stop Walking on Eggshells
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I Hate You—Don’t Leave Me
These works didn’t just describe what we were experiencing—they validated it. They gave us tools. Language. Perspective. And hope.
So why am I sharing this with you?
Because I’ve written a book, it’s not just a story—it’s a mission. While the narrative follows a character named Scott Knox, a brilliant mind wrestling with emotional disconnection, the deeper purpose of the book is to explore, understand, and offer light to anyone who's struggled with the shadows cast by a loved one's mental illness.
Scott’s story is fiction. But the pain he witnesses, the confusion he unpacks, and the discoveries he makes are rooted in real experience.
If you’ve ever:
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Felt manipulated but didn’t know why
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Loved someone who seemed unreachable
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Questioned your sanity in the face of someone else’s intense moods
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Tried to help, only to be pushed away again and again…
Then I wrote this for you.
This isn’t a clinical manual. It’s a human one. I hope to offer understanding, connection, and maybe even healing through fiction. It’s not about blame but compassion, boundaries, truth, and resilience.
You are not alone. And you are not crazy.
There is a way to understand what happened to you—and to chart a better course forward.
Let this story be one part of that journey.
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