Book cover: Permanent Scars: I Knocked on the Door and Hell Reigned In, by Royce Scratch
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Permanent Scars

I Knocked on the Door and Hell Reigned In

by Royce Scratch

Permanent Scars follows Oto, a teenager living with Bipolar 1 disorder, through hospitalization, diagnosis, family trauma, and the difficult return to ordinary life. It is a serious literary novel about illness, silence, survival, and the question of what life can still become.

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A story from inside the diagnosis

The author writes from lived experience: 23 years of treatment, six psychiatric admissions, and a story drawn closely from real life.

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