Front cover of a book titled 'the fragmentation of the mind' with a black silhouette of a human head with cracked, fragmented lines, and the author's name, Richard Shelley.

Fragmentation of the Mind is a written account of living with a dissociative identity.

No simplification, no spectacle—just unfiltered internal truth, mapped from the inside out. It’s not a memoir. Not a blueprint. It’s a structure built from necessity.

A body of work shaped by trauma, adaptation, and the quiet brilliance of survival.

Beneath the Surface

This isn’t theory. It’s not a neat story arc. It’s what it feels like to live in a mind built for survival, not coherence. Fragmentation of the Mind doesn’t tidy up the mess—it names it. It sits inside the static, the switching, the silence between parts, and writes from there. No false unities. No simplified takeaways. Just the layered, lived reality of a dissociative identity—told from the inside, in real time.

Built to Endure

This is not a breakdown narrative. It’s a blueprint of endurance. Every page tracks how the system was formed—part by part, role by role—to keep going when nothing felt safe. The rage, the shutdown, the calculation, the softness—they’re all here, not as symptoms, but as structures. This book doesn’t chase wholeness. It maps the architecture that made survival possible, and lets each part speak for itself.

For Those Who Know

If you’ve ever had to scan the room before speaking. If you’ve ever smiled because it was safer than explaining. If you’ve ever felt like your mind wasn’t just yours, but a shared space—this is written for you. Fragmentation of the Mind isn’t here to diagnose or inspire. It’s here to witness. To let you see yourself—not as broken, but as built. Complex. Coherent on your own terms.