What Shapes Us: DYSSOMNIA: When the Mind Breaks, everything else follows.

By Ritchie Manuel

"A Psychological Medical Horror Thriller"

Decades dormant, Encephalitis Lethargica also known as Sleeping Sickness" has returned-deadlier, more devastating than ever.

Some victims collapse into a state of unnatural sleep, trapped between wakefulness and oblivion. Others are consumed by grotesque insomnia, spiraling into endless, waking nightmares. As fear spreads, humanity struggles to stem the tide while the afflicted change in a horrifying ways--minds fracturing, sanity slipping into irreversible decay.

For the Survivors, survival demands risking everything to uncover answers in a world where reality itself is unraveling.

The Body may Endure--but the mind will not.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GWQH9W7J
• ISBN13: 9798254969730
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"