This is actually happening features real experiences that often include traumatic events.

Please consult the show notes for specific content warnings on each episode and for more information about support services. If I could truly be a healed person, a person at peace, a person who is learned from the journey I would probably think that I was enough

that I was of great value to somebody out there that I could be at peace every night when I go to sleep

and not think, what have I made of my life?

What have I done?

Do I matter to anyone?

Is anything of any significance.

From Wundry, I'm Witt Misdine. You are listening to this is actually happening. Episode 315.

What if your life became a movie? You're going to be. The problem with talking about my parents is that a lot of it is based in almost like a

folklore. You don't really know who to believe. You know, you'll hear one thing from my mom and

another thing for my dad and another thing for my relatives. All I can really say that I know for sure about my dad is he grew up in

Pasadena. He was valedictorian, prom king, super well liked, really popular, and then at some point when he was a teenager,

he became what I'm assuming is schizophrenic.

I don't actually know he was never really diagnosed,

but from what I can tell, like he definitely was extremely

paranoid and he would have these episodes like every couple years where he decided everybody was laying

traps for him, like literally laying like scorpions under his doormat and everybody around him was cooking meth and then he'd kind of snap and he'd call you, screaming at you or show up acting like a nut trying to fight somebody.

And every once in a while when he would kind of go off he

disappeared for a while.

So he was kind of wild I think maybe it got worse as he got older because it seemed like he was

pretty functional he He had jobs, he worked as an

electrician, he was in a band, you know, they were kind of living like a Malibu party lifestyle. And, you know, I think he was a little

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