Memoir of a Mangled Mind (Large Print Edition)

<p><strong>Recognized by 30 literary award contests:</strong></p><p></p><p>? *GRAND PRIZE WINNER* 2024-2025 Reader Views Reviewer Choice Awards (Overall Non-Fiction)</p><p>? *CATEGORY FINALIST* 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Awards</p><p>? *FINALIST* 2025 International Book Awards</p><p>? *THIRD PLACE* 2025 Outstanding Creator Awards (Best Non-Fiction Book of Spring 2025)</p><p>? *QUARTERFINALIST* 2024 Publisher Weekly's BookLife Prize (Memoir)</p><p>? *FINALIST* 2024 The Wishing Shelf Book Awards (Non-Fiction Books for Adults)</p><p>? *WINNER* Spring 2025 The Bookfest Awards 1st Place LGBTQ+ Nonfiction</p><p>? *WINNER* 2024 The Incipere Awards (First Place Memoir)</p><p>? *2025 B.R.A.G. Medallion Recipient*</p><p>? *GOLD AWARD WINNER* 2024-2025 Reader Views Reviewer Choice Awards (Body/Mind/Spirit)</p><p>? *WINNER* 2025 International Impact Book Award (Memoir-Transformative Stories)</p><p>? *WINNER* 2025 Literary Titan Book Award ?????</p><p>? *WINNER* 2024 Firebird Book Award Winner (Mental Health LGBTQ Non-Fiction and Non-Fiction Book Cover Design)</p><p>? *WINNER* 2024 Literary Global Book Award Winner (Psychology & Mental Illness LGBTQ)</p><p>? *WINNER* 2024 Literary Global Book Award Finalist (Memoir)</p><p>? *WINNER* 2024 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award (Best Book in Memoir)</p><p>? *SECOND PLACE* 2025 Outstanding Creator Awards (Autobiographies/Memoirs Mental Health/Mental Illness/Mental Disorders)</p><p>? *THIRD PLACE* 2025 Outstanding Creator Awards (LGBTQ+)</p><p>? *THIRD PLACE* Spring 2025 The Bookfest Awards Memoir - Transformational</p><p>? *SILVER AWARD WINNER* 2024-2025 Reader Views Reviewer Choice Awards (Memoir/Autobiography/Biography)</p><p>? *FINALIST* 2024 SPR Awards (Self-Publishing Review)</p><p>? *FINALIST* 2024 Indies Today Award (Memoir)</p><p>? *TOP 10 FINALIST* 2025 The Under Covers Writing Contest (Non-Fiction Book)</p><p>? *RUNNER-UP* 2025 Southern California Book Festival Award (Memoir)</p><p>? *3RD PLACE WINNER* 2024 BooksShelf Writing Award (Nonfiction)</p><p>? *BRONZE AWARD WINNER* 2024 Global Book Award (LGBT)</p><p></p><p>Steven Simmons Shelton's award-winning debut is a raw first-person account of dissociative identity disorder (DID)-once called multiple personality disorder-in which his psyche fractured during childhood trauma leaving him to fend against alternative personalities who pursued their own lives.</p><p></p><p>Written like a psychological thriller Shelton's <em>Memoir of a Mangled Mind</em> holds nothing back in its unflinching portrayal of a misunderstood mental disorder that in his case endangered himself and everyone around him.</p><h4></h4><h4><strong>About <em>Memoir of a Mangled Mind</em>:</strong></h4><p></p><p>Blackouts take over Steve's life when he's age sixteen. He loses hours days and weeks at a time. Terrified he'll be institutionalized or disbelieved Steve doesn't tell anyone.</p><p></p><p>He discovers he has multiple personalities a mental disorder that developed years earlier when sexual predators targeted him. Originally created as a protective mechanism these alters hijack his consciousness to live their own lives-one as a thief and the other as a gay prostitute.</p><p></p><p>By refusing to tell anyone of his condition or seek proper mental health treatment Steve grants his doppelgangers free rein to drag him down the paths of crime and debauchery.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>How will he navigate the road to redemption?</p>