IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, BREAK CHILDHOOD
A Gen Xer’s Survival Guide to Anxiety, Addiction, and Accidental Enlightenment
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Hi, I’m Jason Mayo—founder of Sober Not Subtle—and this is the book I never thought I’d write.
After more than fifteen years in recovery and a lifetime of carrying the weight of trauma, depression, anxiety and addiction, I finally put it down on the page. In Case of Emergency, Break Childhood is my first memoir—raw, honest, and funny in all the wrong places.
It’s not a how-to or a happily-ever-after. It’s what happens when you grow up feeling too much, learn to hide it all too well, and eventually run out of places to stuff the pain. Writing it nearly broke me. Sharing it might just help someone else feel a little less alone—and that makes it worth it.
I’m excited. I’m terrified. But mostly, I’m grateful—and I can’t wait to share it with you. Thanks for being here, and thanks for your support.
In Case of Emergency, Break Childhood is the unfiltered, painfully funny, and surprisingly hopeful memoir of a Gen Xer who came of age with a latchkey, a bottomless bowl of Honeycombs, and a growing list of reasons to disappear. From self-sabotage and emotional landmines to a slow descent into alcohol, pills, and trading the people he loved for the numbness he craved, this is the story of a boy who never quite fit in and a man who tried everything not to feel—until he had no choice but to face himself. Through depression, addiction, and a mixtape of bad decisions, Jason takes us on a brutally honest journey from disconnection to redemption. It’s a love letter to imperfection, a survival guide for the quietly unraveling, and proof that even the most broken among us can find peace—no matter how many times we’ve hit snooze on rock bottom.
