Memoir of a Mangled Mind: How Concealing My Dissociative Identity Disorder Unleashed Multiple Personalities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781965446171)

Recognized by 30 literary award contests:

✅ *GRAND PRIZE WINNER* 2024-2025 Reader Views Reviewer Choice Awards (Overall Non-Fiction)

✅ *CATEGORY FINALIST* 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Awards

✅ *FINALIST* 2025 International Book Awards

✅ *THIRD PLACE* 2025 Outstanding Creator Awards (Best Non-Fiction Book of Spring 2025)

✅ *QUARTERFINALIST* 2024 Publisher Weekly's BookLife Prize (Memoir)

✅ *FINALIST* 2024 The Wishing Shelf Book Awards (Non-Fiction Books for Adults)

✅ *WINNER* Spring 2025 The Bookfest Awards, 1st Place, LGBTQ+ Nonfiction

✅ *WINNER* 2024 The Incipere Awards (First Place, Memoir)

✅ *2025 B.R.A.G. Medallion Recipient*

✅ *GOLD AWARD WINNER* 2024-2025 Reader Views Reviewer Choice Awards (Body/Mind/Spirit)

✅ *WINNER* 2025 International Impact Book Award (Memoir-Transformative Stories)

✅ *WINNER* 2025 Literary Titan Book Award ★★★★★

✅ *WINNER* 2024 Firebird Book Award Winner (Mental Health, LGBTQ Non-Fiction, and Non-Fiction Book Cover Design)

✅ *WINNER* 2024 Literary Global Book Award Winner (Psychology & Mental Illness, LGBTQ)

✅ *WINNER* 2024 Literary Global Book Award Finalist (Memoir)

✅ *WINNER* 2024 NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Award (Best Book in Memoir)

✅ *SECOND PLACE* 2025 Outstanding Creator Awards (Autobiographies/Memoirs, Mental Health/Mental Illness/Mental Disorders)

✅ *THIRD PLACE* 2025 Outstanding Creator Awards (LGBTQ+)

✅ *THIRD PLACE* Spring 2025 The Bookfest Awards, Memoir - Transformational

✅ *SILVER AWARD WINNER* 2024-2025 Reader Views Reviewer Choice Awards (Memoir/Autobiography/Biography)

✅ *FINALIST* 2024 SPR Awards (Self-Publishing Review)

✅ *FINALIST* 2024 Indies Today Award (Memoir)

✅ *TOP 10 FINALIST* 2025 The Under Covers Writing Contest (Non-Fiction Book)

✅ *RUNNER-UP* 2025 Southern California Book Festival Award (Memoir)

✅ *3RD PLACE WINNER* 2024 BooksShelf Writing Award (Nonfiction)

✅ *BRONZE AWARD WINNER* 2024 Global Book Award (LGBT)

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.

Written like a psychological thriller, Shelton's Memoir of a Mangled Mind holds nothing back in its unflinching portrayal of a misunderstood mental disorder that, in his case, endangered himself and everyone around him.

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.

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.

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.

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?