Afflicted

Schizophrenia. Chronic Hell. Dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder. A life sentence of its own. Crack! went the egg of Isaiah’s consciousness. Split! Torn was his developing personality. Snap! went his notion of right from wrong. Wam! Warped was his concept of reality. There was a history of mental illness in Isaiah’s family. His father was the chief victim who passed on diseased genes. Paul Falanga had multiple diagnoses too. Schizo-affective disorder, a mix between bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Father and son. Afflicted. By evil spirits. Playing puppeteer with their brain chemistry. Pulling strings with hallucinogenic spark plugs. Firing. Rampant. Electrical engines of the body. Creating twisted realities. Pop! Then project. Horror films running through their heads. Visions in a haunted cartoon melting the otherwise mundane lives hid behind their eyelids. Afflicted is a message of hope, perseverance, redemption, courage, love, affliction, suffering, victory, and holiness.Rice, Dominic is the author of 'Afflicted', published 2007 under ISBN 9781424199297 and ISBN 1424199298.