School of Humans.

Charlie Marinelli is having a psychotic break in India, a country halfway around the world from

his parents, Nanette and Charlie Sr., who were frantically trying to get to their son.

On their layover in Istanbul, Nanette facet times with Renek, a friend of Charlie's they sent

from Delhi to keep tabs on him until they got there.

Renick is standing with Charlie outside of a hospital, begging him, along with his parents,

to go in.

But Charlie refuses.

He believes he's the Messiah, and whatever this hospital

is going to do to him will strip him of his enlightenment. But this is not a state of

enlightenment that anyone can survive. If Renek can't get Charlie into this hospital now,

then Charlie will be another missing person in India.

I went into psychosis, and there were definitely things that I did that were not rational at all,

but the experience was very real, and what I went through was very real.

This is Charlie Marinelli. He's back from India and integrating after a psychosis. the experience was very real and what I went through was very real.

This is Charlie Marinelli. He's back from India and integrating after a psychosis.

I got an email from him on March 22nd with a subject line that read, India Syndrome Survivor.

Episode 3 of Estray had just launched and I'd received a handful of emails and DMs from listeners, but this one,

as you can imagine, stopped me my tracks. When I got on a call with him, he told me a story. I was on

the edge of my seat for every minute of that three-hour call. Charlie ended up going into that hospital

with Renick, and his parents eventually met him there.

But how he got there is a journey that's changed him forever.

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