chapter fifty seven

'Intermittent explosive disorder (IED)

involves frequent episodes of

impulsive anger that's out of

proportion to the event that triggered

it. These outbursts can result in

physical harm to the person with IED, other people or animals.'

The words of the Google research I ran when I was younger ring in my ears till today as I stare blankly at the medication I need to take to control it. After the incident in the basement that almost killed me, I had woken up in the hospital with flashbacks from a life I didn't understand. Besides me was a familiar face of someone my memory declared as dead and that scared me to almost death. Not knowing it was my mother's twin, Genesis.

That of course, led me into waking up a second time to a doctor's friendly face, a nurse waiting right behind him. I was only ten at the time and I didn't even remember who I was. I didn't even feel confident to speak for months after getting out of the hospital because of fear. And when the nightmares came, all I could