“Living With Schizophrenia: My Father’s Perfect Family” A man named Mike Hedrick lives in the mountains of Boulder, Colorado with his parents and his brother. When he went off to college he began smoking weed and other drugs. Shortly after this began, he started to lose his sense of reality. He was extremely paranoid and delusional. He experienced many hallucinations, but as his parents noticed the change, they assumed that it was the drugs and told him to stop. It got increasingly worse, and he ended up traveling to New York City with the notion that he was a profit and needed to complete a mission in order to save the world. After his breakdown he returned home and spent a week in a psychiatric facility. He said he was completely broken
