Brain Storm

A Life in Pieces

De: Shelley Kolton

Narrado por: Alma Cuervo

Brain Storm tells the story of how the author survived childhood sexual and ritual abuse and lived a life with Multiple Personality Disorder. The abuse was horrifying and the recovery hellish but throughout, her alters brought her to safety. In no small measure because of it all, she became an activist feminist, successful doctor, devoted parent and loving partner.

In the end, Brain Storm is a book about the resiliency of the human psyche and the triumph of the human spirit. It is also a book that lays to rest any doubts about the existence of Multiple Personality or DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) and ritual abuse. Satanic cults are real and victims need to be heard. DID is real and persons with dissociative symptoms must be recognized by the therapeutic community of doctors, psychologists and therapists. Finally this is a book for everyone who has survived abuse of any kind and who struggles to prove its credibility.

©2021 Shelley Kolton (P)2022 Shelley Kolton

Thorough yet overwhelming. Healing for Me

it was the description of all the emails, texts, journaling and chronology of healing that were most powerful to me. I needed to hear the mind chatter.... the anguish and the rawness of it all to know mine was real too.

Inspiring

This is such an inspiring and hopeful story. As a therapist who works with trauma, I read or listen whenever I feel I am losing focus. Thank you for sharing this journey.

A Tragic and Horrific Life Memoir, Well Done

This book shows the battle those with DID face in it's most raw form. Holding back no punches, the author and trauma survivor Shelley Kolton shares her life with the reader describing her early life experiences through the voices of her alters and her waking self. It brought me to tears many times over- even at one point with me shouting "NO" out loud and frightening my own partner who was in another room.
Do not read/listen to this memoir unless you are in a safe place mentally. If you have DID, like I myself do, make sure all of you feel safe and secure and take it slow. It isn't an easy listen. But it is a necessary one to understand the life and trials that happen with this "dis-order". I call it that because integration isn't really what I want for us, my own system. But that is because I do have co-consciousness with most of them and the one that I don't is pretty quiet these days.
Their daily struggles with pain and love, fear and motivation are poignant, keeping the reader/listener engaged and going through the emotions with the author.
DID is definitely a master thief of time.
I highly recommend this book. Well written, well performed and extremely engaging.