About the book
Imagine your body is a high-end smartphone running a glitchy operating system. Some days it boots up fine. Other days it crashes before breakfast, drains to 2% by noon, and nobody around you can see the error message.
System Shock is the story of living inside that machine - autoimmune arthritis, ADHD, anxiety, and depression all running at once. It's honest about the flares, the doctors who dismiss your carefully tracked data, the insurance hoops, and the exhausting 'translation tax' of explaining yourself to a healthy world.
And then it gets practical - and hopeful.
Inside the book
The Anatomy of a Flare
What a system crash really feels like, body and brain.
The Medical Gaslight and the Data Trap
When your spreadsheets meet a clean blood panel.
The Exhaustion Shutdown
Going offline to recover, with text templates to keep your people close.
The Dopamine vs. Inflammation Showdown
An ADHD brain that wants to go and joints that say stay.
The Art of the Workaround
The Cheat Code Index: real hacks for mornings, chores, work, and groceries.
The Quiet Return of Joy
Calm and contentment on imperfect hardware.
Who it's for
For anyone who's been told they look fine, who plans life around a flare that hasn't happened yet, or who's tired of advice from people who've never had to count spoons.