![]() Her condition was pathological, but it was also representative of a larger human tendency: the search for a greater meaning in the events we experience on a daily basis. When a movie she saw had risen to number one, she was both excited and alarmed: she had made it to the top, but it meant that the range of the conspiracy had widened.Īt the root of my ex-wife’s condition was a compulsion to see everything as connected. ![]() She would check the box office receipts religiously. She felt the filmmakers were spying on her and then putting different versions of her life up on the screen. Every time she would see a movie, she would claim it was about her, which I soon came to understand she meant in a very literal sense. ![]() Of these alleged perpetrators, the one that soon came to take pride of place in her fevered brain was the film industry. As her condition got worse, the conspiracy widened: it came to include not only her supervisors, but also the president of the college where we’d met, all of Hollywood, and, at times, my family and me. ![]() She would come home from her job as a financial analyst and hint at a conspiracy among her bosses to cause her some unspecified form of harm. ![]() TEN YEARS AGO, my now ex-wife began showing signs of a troubling paranoia. ![]()
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