i just woke up dead: sex, drug and alcohol addiction memoir: 3 part compilation edition
Book Details
Author(s)Justin Donner
PublisherJustin Donner
ISBN / ASINB00ILUVW8U
ISBN-13978B00ILUVW88
Sales Rank231,367
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
WARNING: re-think the addiction memoir
Like awakening from a nightmare, readers learn pieces of the story through chapters providing clues to uncover the events of a blackout and Minnesota State-enforced psychiatric ward indefinite placement. Readers are left to fill in the blanks the way dreams are remembered vividly, along for the ride toward what leads to the vital first-step of admission of powerlessness to sex, drugs and alcohol.
This is an experience, not a recollection meant to glorify; the story of an addict may enlighten understanding because that is what stories do. Visit ijustwokeupdead.com if you need to fact check or verify that addiction memoirs like this have no precedent.
DISCLAIMER: graphic sexual content is presented to illuminate behavior connected to violent and addictive development; these are the realities of countless people who feel disconnected and alone... you are not alone.
Read at your own risk of feeling what you may not enjoy.
* An examination of addiction, mental illness and domestic violence unlike any other, "ijwd" was compiled using a lifetime collection of journals, notes, photos, arrest records, hospital documents, and candid conversations with those involved in the self-destruction contained herein. As much a research project as a memoir (written by an author with a masters degree from Cal Irvine with an extensive background in research writing), details and perspective never found in domestic violence, addiction or mental health literature are recounted in a way that will relate to addicts, enlighten professionals, and educate the loved ones who watch lives fall apart.
Wake up from the blackout, bloodied, bruised, in detox on a police hold. No clue.
In PART 1, readers participate in the unraveling of sexual, sometimes violent intoxicated events countless addicts endure daily. This narrative puts the reader at the high point of college success, earning top-school billing as a pre-med student. Fast forward to hell, learning about an attack of domestic violence not remembered, yet completely true. Back to college and the recklessness of arrogance, pressure and subsequent drowning in all things addictive. Travel into court, facing judges and prosecutors while arranging a psychiatric hospital stay.
Beginning with a sharp fall from the top, alternating with grit climbing up from rock bottom, "ijwd" is an experience, a case study of addiction told in a perspective with rare clarity in an addiction memoir.
PART 1 compares top from bottom, while PARTS 2 and 3 take readers on an exploratory journey to show, not tell, but live through what could possibly derail a bright future while the soul-searching path to recovery is told through psychiatric hospital walls and a rehabilitation center.
Discover the strength and courage to deal with addiction, mental illness and domestic violence. Learn about behaviors not easily described, as an accomplice in the story of how sex, drugs and alcohol impact lives.
That readers may understand why sobriety is so hard to obtain, that willpower is never enough for the masses who die each day fighting the battle against all types of addiction, that one person leaves a violent relationship, those are the hopeful goals of this story.
Like awakening from a nightmare, readers learn pieces of the story through chapters providing clues to uncover the events of a blackout and Minnesota State-enforced psychiatric ward indefinite placement. Readers are left to fill in the blanks the way dreams are remembered vividly, along for the ride toward what leads to the vital first-step of admission of powerlessness to sex, drugs and alcohol.
This is an experience, not a recollection meant to glorify; the story of an addict may enlighten understanding because that is what stories do. Visit ijustwokeupdead.com if you need to fact check or verify that addiction memoirs like this have no precedent.
DISCLAIMER: graphic sexual content is presented to illuminate behavior connected to violent and addictive development; these are the realities of countless people who feel disconnected and alone... you are not alone.
Read at your own risk of feeling what you may not enjoy.
* An examination of addiction, mental illness and domestic violence unlike any other, "ijwd" was compiled using a lifetime collection of journals, notes, photos, arrest records, hospital documents, and candid conversations with those involved in the self-destruction contained herein. As much a research project as a memoir (written by an author with a masters degree from Cal Irvine with an extensive background in research writing), details and perspective never found in domestic violence, addiction or mental health literature are recounted in a way that will relate to addicts, enlighten professionals, and educate the loved ones who watch lives fall apart.
Wake up from the blackout, bloodied, bruised, in detox on a police hold. No clue.
In PART 1, readers participate in the unraveling of sexual, sometimes violent intoxicated events countless addicts endure daily. This narrative puts the reader at the high point of college success, earning top-school billing as a pre-med student. Fast forward to hell, learning about an attack of domestic violence not remembered, yet completely true. Back to college and the recklessness of arrogance, pressure and subsequent drowning in all things addictive. Travel into court, facing judges and prosecutors while arranging a psychiatric hospital stay.
Beginning with a sharp fall from the top, alternating with grit climbing up from rock bottom, "ijwd" is an experience, a case study of addiction told in a perspective with rare clarity in an addiction memoir.
PART 1 compares top from bottom, while PARTS 2 and 3 take readers on an exploratory journey to show, not tell, but live through what could possibly derail a bright future while the soul-searching path to recovery is told through psychiatric hospital walls and a rehabilitation center.
Discover the strength and courage to deal with addiction, mental illness and domestic violence. Learn about behaviors not easily described, as an accomplice in the story of how sex, drugs and alcohol impact lives.
That readers may understand why sobriety is so hard to obtain, that willpower is never enough for the masses who die each day fighting the battle against all types of addiction, that one person leaves a violent relationship, those are the hopeful goals of this story.
