Is This Why I’m Crazy?

Is This Why I’m Crazy? A Satirical Survival Guide for the Mentally Ill

By Yema Chaemie

For anyone who’s ever been told “you’re overreacting” while actively being underpaid, overworked, and emotionally looted by capitalism’s colonial aftermath.

This is not your therapist’s trauma workbook. This is a satirical survival guide for:  

– Women who diagnose themselves mid-panic attack because the DSM-V costs $99 and rent is due  

– Survivors tired of being told to “just breathe” by people who’ve never hyperventilated in a Target parking lot  

– Anyone who’s ever thought “If one more person calls me ‘resilient’ I will set something on fire” 

What’s inside:

– Field notes from a decade of outsmarting therapists who feared your self-awareness  

– Maladaptive coping mechanisms ranked like Yelp reviews (5 stars for dissociation, 1 star for “just journal about it”)  

– Consent frameworks for people who’d rather chew glass than have one more “healing conversation” with their abusers  

– The RISA Method™ for arguing with narcissists (Real, Important, Specific, Aligned—or as we call it: “How to Win Fights Without Crying in the Shower After”)  

Why read it?

Because you deserve trauma recovery that:  

✓ Doesn’t cost $200/hour  

✓ Admits that “forgiveness” is sometimes code for “gaslight yourself”  

✓ Lets you say “I hope that man has suffered every day since he met me” without judgment  

Content Warnings:

Humour as sharp as your unmedicated ADHD brain, truths that’ll make spiritual by passers clutch their sage, and enough cathartic rage to power a small city.  

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(P.S. If this book triggers you, try being less perceptive. Just kidding. But also…)