BORN NOT TO EXIST, book print format

BORN NOT TO EXIST

One man’s journey to complete recovery from schizophrenia

After walking out of a movie theater, Frédéric Meuwly’s life descended into hell. From one day to the next, a voice he believed to be the Devil urged him to put a bullet in his head, while another—one he took to be God’s—promised him an extraordinary destiny as the savior of humanity.

Torn between hallucinations, withdrawal, solitary hikes, and a job as a youth counselor in which he merely “pretended,” he managed to stay afloat until his employer encouraged him to apply for disability insurance. Psychiatry then delivered its diagnosis: psychosis, requiring hospitalization and medication.

Yet Frédéric chose a different path. He began physiotherapy treatments aimed at restoring suppleness to his muscular chains, verticality to his spine, and amplitude to his breath. With no other intervention, he experienced a phenomenal recovery—one his physicians described as “beyond the norm.”

Book print format 265 pages – Éditions Abysses
ISBN 978-2-83-992598-3
Perfect-bound spine, 300g
color cover Interior pages: 80g black and white