1 I’ve already been asked if, in the audiobook of A Mind Unraveled, about deeply traumatic experiences in my life, whether I am acting when I am sobbing while reciting some deeply traumatic scenes. I am not that good an actor. It’s real....
2....while recounting dialogue during these difficult scenes, I found I had to recite all of the things I said at the time in one go, because I could not stop crying. I was crying when the real events happened too. We then went back about 30 minutes later and I recited...
3...the dialogue of other and other words between the dialogue. It makes me sound like a great actor, because I go back and forth from traumatized to just speaking when I am reciting what others say. I guess I am telling this because I think it is important for people to....
4...understand the magnitude of this trauma, that it has stayed with me for decades, but that I never let it defeat me. I used trauma to find strength. It and my health issues were my enemy and I vowed to defeat them. Revisiting the trauma through reciting terrible events was...
5....brutal, as I knew it would be when I agreed to read the audiobook. But I did not let trauma to defeat me, even though it has stayed with me for all of my adult life.
