Chip Chick
Despite receiving treatment, his peculiar behavior wouldn’t let up, and he kept increasingly acting in ways that were so out of left field.
Previously, he was always incredibly stable, but he spiraled into a deeper and darker hole. The substance abuse problems he picked up also didn’t help, and finally, his wife told him she was done after he lied about using a substance.
Even after the divorce, he stayed in touch with his wife’s brother, who also attempted to be a support system for the two of them as they split up their lives.
As time went on, his now ex-wife’s brother cut him out of his life as well, and in the following twelve months, he did his best to get in contact with his ex-wife’s brother as well as his ex-wife.
He texted them, he emailed them, and finally, he just stopped trying to reach out to the two of them as he couldn’t blame them for how his life had turned out.
Friends he shared with his ex-wife exited his life, and he suspects some more of his lies and bad stories came out post-divorce, so everyone avoided him like the plague.
“I sank pretty low, lost multiple jobs, and barely scraped by,” he said. “Fast forward to now. I’m still struggling, but I’ve managed to hold a good, well-paying job and even bought a few properties.”
“I got a new little pup named Archie, who keeps me going when times get tough. I’ve kept at therapy, and it’s definitely helped. But recently, while traveling, I suddenly collapsed.”
After arriving at a hospital and telling the doctor about his medical history, he went in for an MRI. The way the doctor treated him really scared him, as he could tell the doctor thought something terrible had to be going on.
The MRI results came back, and it turns out that he has a brain tumor. As soon as the doctor delivered the news, he felt relieved.
All of the awful things he has recently gone through add up, and it’s not unheard of for people with brain tumors to be misdiagnosed as bipolar, which did happen to him.
