Inner Chaos

For the first six months, the body was on constant alert; every cell shaken, every sense sharpened beyond its limits, the mind dissolving into havoc.

A thousand thoughts flashed through the brain each second, the mind desperately searching to explain what had happened — and what was happening — replaying sequences in endless loops of words and images.

Repetition spiralled inside me as neural pathways looped continuously. The mind driven by a desperate compulsion to impose order on the chaos.