The majority of people don't believe I have an illness.
My friends and family think that it's in my head.
Unless it's cancer,
people just don't care.
They don't get it.
You're pride and your vanity is gone
and you're on the internet begging for help.
When I'm having one of my attacks,
which are really, really violent
and really, really scary,
I just imagine what my brother or my relatives
think I'm doing in that moment.
They think I'm probably at a party or at a dinner
when in actuality I'm curled up in a ball
convulsing and sobbing uncontrollably.
People ask me sometimes
if I think problems are as simple
as I make 'em out to be?
I don't think problems are simple at all.
I think they're often complex
but I think the solutions are sometimes very simple frankly.
And one of the first things that I looked at
was your language
because I think language is very powerful.
And so I took a look at your language
and I found it to be very catastrophic,
very catastrophic, very dramatic and very catastrophic.
Every cell in my body is screaming.
Really?
Every cell in your body is screaming.
You say I hope to be abducted and murdered by a gang
just so I can escape this.
Extreme state of emergency, atomic hunger,
wish for cancer, coronavirus,
so I can be killed.
Everything is in the extreme,
everything is catastrophic.
I did a lot of my work in behavioral medicine,
Southwestern Medical School in Dallas,
which is Parkland Hospital.
They have a child burn unit.
The children in there
with full deaf burns over 70% of their body.
That's catastrophic.
This is irritating.
I believe in Occam's Razor.
The principle of parsimony says
that the simplest explanation of a phenomenon
is more often the best.
I've tried a lot of things,
lizard serum hasn't been among them,
but I understand that you're looking for something
and you talk to doctors
that are happy to take your $200,000
and tell you whatever you want to hear
but I'm really surprised that this is described by you
as a mysterious illness
because it's really not mysterious at all.
It's not even that uncommon.
There's a simple description of the disorder,
it's in the DSM-V that's called binge-eating disorder
and it is recurrent episodes of eating amounts
definitely larger than most people,
a sense of lack of control over eating,
eating rapidly when not physically hungry
until uncomfortably full.
This is something that happens a lot actually.
This isn't like oh my God,
what a strange situation.
Let's talk about the other part of this
which is a conversion disorder
or a functional neurological disorder.
And this is a condition
where there are symptoms
of altered motor and sensory function
that are incompatible with any recognized
neurological or medical condition.
And when you get into this
you see that the typical things
that people experience are jerks, muscle rigidity
and twitching, convulsions, things of that nature
when there is no reason biochemically
or electronically for those things to be occurring.
And you sleep at night
and don't have those issues when you don't eat
but yet you have them during the day
if you don't eat.
So the question is what's the answer to that
and is Suzy willing to take the necessary steps
to get healthy again?