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Rx: Sanity After Civilization
Paperback
Series: RX
Publisher: Ordinary Panic Books
Published: Aug 20 2026
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Kyle has spent years learning not to trust every thought his mind gives him. Now the world outside is becoming harder to trust than the one inside his head.
Living with bipolar disorder means recognizing the warning signs-mania, paranoia, intrusive thoughts, hallucinations-and relying on medication, mindfulness, family, and routine to stay grounded.
When civilization begins to collapse, those carefully built safeguards start disappearing with it.
The streets are abandoned. The infected are real. The pharmacies are empty. And the impossible things Kyle once taught himself to question are suddenly happening all around him.
To make it home, he must cross a fog-shrouded, post-apocalyptic city where every sound could mean death and every thought could be a warning-or a lie.
Elsewhere in the collapse, a soldier named Leigh is facing the same dying world from the opposite direction. Where Kyle survives by questioning his own perceptions, Leigh has built herself around discipline, control, and the certainty of orders.
A disciplined soldier trained to follow orders, suppress emotion, and complete the mission, she believes structure is what keeps people alive. But as authority fractures and the system around her begins to rot, obedience becomes its own kind of danger.
As each of them is stripped of the systems that once kept their lives ordered, their separate paths begin drawing toward the same unraveling world.
RX: Sanity After Civilization is a bleak psychological thriller that blends post-apocalyptic horror, survival, paranoia, mental illness, moral ambiguity, and societal collapse into a disturbing question:
When the structures that kept you stable disappear, how much of yourself survives with them?
In a world where the infected are no longer the only threat, survival may depend on knowing which instincts to trust-and which ones were never trustworthy to begin with.
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