The mad traveller: experiences with dissociative fugue

How terrifying is it when you disappear from your everyday life and wake up somewhere else, without even knowing how you got there?

That is the experience of someone with dissociative fugue - and that was the life Imogen Groome lived.

A clever and quiet child, Imogen was marginalised and bullied at school.

Sometimes she walked out of lessons, because she simply couldn't cope; sometimes, something inside her woke up, and 'The Mad Traveller' took over.

Imogen was the girl who kept going missing. And as she struggled to deal with a life that just kept on getting harder, she zoned out more and more.

Imogen's story gives an astonishing insight into living with dissociative fugue, but more than that, it gives us an inspiring tale for our times.