Elizabeth Phillips
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So really smart kid growing up.
National merit scholar, not finalist, not semi-finalist, national merit scholar, like top 0.01% on that test.
He always wanted to be pre-med.
He could have been a brain surgeon.
I mean, he was brilliant.
Well-rounded football, cross-country, athletic, all the things.
Eagle scout.
And then the depositions, like I mentioned, led to his first psychotic break.
Thanks, Kanakuk.
So it was like the child sexual abuse.
And then you had the institutional abuse and the gaslighting and those depositions.
And then the in and out of treatment centers.
Some he would leave without even a diagnosis.
And there's like 20 more medications.
Nothing was working or helping.
Um... And so, he started, like, deep diving and, uh... He came out to live in North Carolina with us for a month.
And he was too paranoid to go to a certain therapist's office.
I got him in because of my foundation role.
I was doing some work with the University of North Carolina in Greensboro on healthy relationships.
So these guys are all psychologists.