How do i recover an unsaved doent when Microsoft Word was no longer responding?

so i was typing up my essays for my internship program that i was going to apply for. and my computer auto saves all of the stuff but i didnt save the stuff myself like pushing the save on and everything. i copied and pasted the paragraphs onto the application form. but then my microsoft word froze and said it wasnt responding. and then the little window popped up and i clicked restart it and so it said that it was recovering it and then it restarted it but it only restarted it as blank forms and a blank page. i went to go and check my clipboard and then there was nothing there at all. is there any way for me to recover the stuff or is it lost forever? If so how can i do that? i really need to figure it out because this is already the 3rd time on this specific application that it has done it to me and i dont know what to do and i have no idea what i wrote any more.