Clinical Lycanthropy
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What is Clinical Lycanthropy?
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Who was Austin Harroff?
Austin Harroff was born on December 21st, 1996 to a dentist and a pharmacist. They lived in a beautiful home in Palm Beach County, Florida, which is not only one of the nicest and wealthiest places to live in Florida, but it is one of the nicest and wealthiest places to live in all of America. And that's why, as of 2021, there are 44 billionaires that call this paradise their home. In 2010, when Austin was 13 years old, his parents suddenly got divorced, and within the same calendar year, both of his parents had new girlfriends and boyfriends. Now, of course, this was a shock to Austin and to his one-year younger sister Haley, but they both relatively quickly adjusted to their new normal. And that was in large part because the kids didn't move out.
They stayed in the family home with their mom, and their father, he did move out, but he moved into a home that was very close by. About a year after the divorce, Austin began high school and immediately he excelled. He was placed into all advanced classes and within these advanced classes Austin was consistently at the top of his class. Austin was also a big athletic guy. He was about six feet tall and weighed about 200 pounds and so naturally he played football for all four years he was in high school and for one year, his sophomore year, he also wrestled. But despite his size and willingness to play these very rough physical sports, Austin was not an aggressive guy. In fact, his football coaches actually used to criticize him for not being aggressive enough.
And on game days, they would try to make him mad in hopes that would inspire him to go out there and smash some people. But it really didn't work because Austin was Austin. He was just kind of a laid back guy who was actually much more interested in helping people than smashing them. In fact, towards the end of high school, Austin became obsessed with trying to identify a career that would allow him to help the most people. And he was so passionate about this that when he spoke about it, a huge smile would kind of involuntarily appear on his face. And so because of this, and because of Austin's generally happy disposition, his father very lovingly began referring to him as the happy boy. Shortly before Austin's graduation in 2015, he received a letter in the mail from Florida State University, and it was informing him he had been accepted into their four-year pre-med program.
Austin had settled on medicine as being his intended career path to help the most people, and so being accepted into this very prestigious program was like a best-case scenario. And so Austin and his family were elated. And that summer that followed his high school graduation was totally charmed. Austin was on cloud nine. He spent a lot of time with his family and his friends. And then finally, at the end of the summer, his family packed all of his stuff into the car, and they drove six hours north to Tallahassee, where the Florida State campus was. They helped move him into his dorm, and then afterwards they gave him a big hug, said good luck, and they left. And I'm sure on their ride back, the family members thought to themselves, Austin is doing so great.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is Clinical Lycanthropy?
0:00–1:34
2
Who was Austin Harroff?
1:34–7:52
3
What led to Austin's mental health crisis?
7:52–14:36
4
What happened on August 15th?
14:36–22:55
5
How did the situation escalate with Michelle and John?
22:55–34:30
6
What was the outcome of the confrontation?
34:30–40:01