Katie Merritt

You is a raw, first-person memoir written in real time while surviving emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. This book documents life inside long-term narcissistic abuse, manipulation, gaslighting, control, and isolation, as the author endures multiple forms of violence while living with her abuser and navigating pregnancy, homelessness, fear, and trauma. Written during active abuse, You captures the psychological reality of C-PTSD, trauma bonding, and codependency, exposing the internal conflict of loving someone who is destroying you.
It is not a polished recovery story - it is survival in motion. This book is for survivors who:lived with their abuserwere isolated from supportwere controlled through fearexperienced narcissistic manipulationendured emotional, physical, and sexual violencelive with complex trauma and PTSDYou is a testimony of survival, identity loss, and the beginning of reclaiming self - turning pain into clarity and silence into voice.