Like a master computer, the brain controls everything, but when it malfunctions there is no system reset, no disk recovery, no memory restore.
Joseph† graduated from college in Illinois, bought a house in
California, and raised a family in the suburbs. By all accounts his life seemed normal. And it was, until he got the news: cancer.
After a successful operation with a good prognosis, a routine procedure went awry.
Doctors rushed him into emergency surgery and, for the second time in a week, put him under general anesthesia. When he was released, everything changed.
Joseph descended into psychosis, extreme paranoia, and grandiose
delusions.
Within a couple of years, he did the unthinkable. He embarked on a trip involving
four continents, thirty countries, and thirteen wives. Joseph gave up everything along the way: his career, his finances, and his family. He was purportedly arrested in Israel, preached to the
Mafioso in Italy, and hailed as a prophet in Africa. Penniless, he returned to America where he had run-ins with drug dealers and prostitutes.
This true story follows one man’s bizarre journey through mental illness.
He is not a faceless stranger living on the streets.
He is my dad.
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