My terrible breakdown led to my first feature film!
This post was written by Addison Heimann.
In the third title card of Hypochondriac, a movie written and directed by yours truly (hi! I’m Addison! I’m a kooky boy!), it says “based on a real breakdown.” Well, spoiler alert, it’s mine!
I mean, I hope this is implied, but you never know. And now you do! Long story short, I lost full function of my arms after an injury at work, convinced myself I was dying of ALS (thanks, Google!), and while all of this was happening, my mother was leaving me voicemails telling me not to trust my friends. This confluence of events caused me to crack.
So that’s how the movie came about. I wrote a bad draft while my arms rested on pillows, ice packs on them both, and wrote the first inklings of what would eventually become the movie. It wasn’t until I accepted I was trying to write a movie about my inherited trauma from my mother that I realized it into a working draft.
Author: Guest Author
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