Can you survive five psychotic breaks by 30 and live to tell about it in a sane and sober way? Ethan Bach sure did, and feels like he is just starting to live with a big story to tell. Ethan was living a fairly normal teenage life. Sure, he played too many video games, was exposed to porn at a fairly young age, and had seen his fair share of violent films, but it wasn’t until he was diagnosed with a deep and perilous brain tumor that he slipped into what was described as a Steroid Psychosis at age 18. Despite trying to ‘live normally” with college, and girlfriends, he fell down a dark path with drinking, weed, spice and porn which led to more of a breaking of the mind. Four more psychotic episodes ensued, each one crazier and harder to believe than the last, and usually including "The Truman Show Delusion.” Today he is recovered, on medication and sober, and writing a book about his experiences. You can find Ethan at IG @ebach_writer.
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