I Am Someone Else: A Memoir of Trauma and Survival

I am Sabine.
My father abused me.
My mother took her own life.
And I survived.”
Sabine’s childhood is marked by violence, silence, and the failure of those who were meant to protect her. As a result of the trauma, she develops a complex post-traumatic stress disorder with dissociative parts that increasingly shape her life.
As a teenager, she is placed in a reform institution. After her mother’s suicide, she loses all stability. She struggles to find her place in school and later in work, becomes involved with drugs, contracts HIV, and finds herself trapped in violent relationships. In the midst of this, she becomes pregnant.
In this unflinchingly honest memoir, Sabine tells how she breaks free from a cycle of trauma and failed attempts to cope, processes her past, and begins to reclaim herself.
A story about trauma, survival, and the strength to save yourself when no one else does.