Evaristo Salas Jr.

But you're all going to eventually go insane.

And I've seen that.

You can know if they're going to survive two or three years because they were long since in those places.

That first year is usually when they go crazy.

And I would see it all the time.

These guys would just start screaming, just start smearing feces on themselves, you know, screaming at things that are not there, yelling for their moms.

I mean, it was just, it was a constant.

every day I've seen that kind of stuff.

It was horrible.

The way I did it was when I started feeling that I was heading that direction, I was getting too close to that, I started just reading.

And that's why I got into a lot of Eastern philosophy.

And that stuff really helped me.

I got into this little discussion, almost an argument with a psychiatrist because I told him, I said, do you think isolation breeds insanity?

And he wouldn't answer me even though he knew that, you know, I was taking a shot.

He wouldn't answer me, but he goes, oh, you know, then we just started having this conversation, just a general conversation about books.

And he goes, you know what, I think there's a book you might like.

And he brought me this book, you know, and it was called The Power of Now or New Earth or something.

I can't remember what it was, but it was about kind of Buddhist teachings, all kinds of different things.

But it really kind of brought me back because it helped me kind of really realize what the mind is kind of doing.

Because in those situations, the mind is starting to cannibalize itself.