Dragon's Current

The Storm that Stayed Inside

von Brad Pietzyk

290 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Dragon's Current is not a war memoir. It's the story of what came after - and what stayed.For fifteen years, Brad Pietzyk served in the U.S. Army, moving across the world while carrying something he couldn't name. The current inside him - electric, relentless - would eventually be diagnosed as schizoaffective disorder. It ended his career, but not his search for understanding.As the symptoms grew louder, the life he'd built began to fracture. What followed was a long, disorienting unraveling: confusion without language, identity without shape, and the quiet devastation of trying to hold a life together while everything internal shifts.With clarity and unflinching honesty, Dragon's Current traces: - the slow erosion of identity under undiagnosed symptoms- the systems that failed him when he needed them most- the private cost of appearing "fine" while falling apart- the long, difficult work of rebuilding a life from the inside outThis is a memoir about survival, mental health, and the storm that stayed inside - a raw, reflective journey through diagnosis, trauma, and the ongoing work of learning to live with a mind that doesn't always cooperate.If you've ever felt undone by forces you couldn't name, or fought to rebuild yourself piece by piece, this story will stay with you.