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Separated & Disconnected: Where Reality Fractures: Service, Sacrifice, Separation, and the Search for Connection
Paperback
Biographies GeneralHealth GeneralMental Health
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 10 2025
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.67 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
I didn't realize I was losing my mind... until it was already happening.
After years of structure, discipline, and identity in the United States Marine Corps, life after service was supposed to be the next chapter.
Instead, it became something else entirely.
Separated and Disconnected is a raw and deeply personal memoir of what happens when the uniform comes off-and the mind begins to unravel.
Following his transition out of the Marine Corps to pursue a Ph.D., the author finds himself facing an unexpected and invisible battle. What begins as uncertainty slowly shifts into confusion... then into a complete break from reality.
Delusions. Disorientation. Three hospitalizations.
And one question that becomes impossible to ignore:
What is real?
Inside this memoir:- The unseen challenges of transitioning out of military life
- The experience of psychosis and losing touch with reality
- Three hospitalizations and the moments within them
- The loss of identity after structure disappears
- The slow and uncertain path back to clarity
Told with honesty and vivid detail, this memoir places you inside the experience-not as an observer, but as someone living it. From quiet moments of confusion to overwhelming shifts in perception, Separated and Disconnected reveals what it means to question your own thoughts... and fight your way back.
Written by a former U.S. Marine and mental health professional, this is more than a story-it's a rare and personal look into the intersection of identity, service, and mental health.
Even in our most disconnected moments, there is a path back.
If you've ever struggled with identity, questioned your reality, or faced life after a major transition-this story will stay with you.
Read Separated and Disconnected today.
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