Murder and Misunderstanding: one man's escape from insanity

by Shubi S.

Murder and Misunderstanding depicts the secret reality of paranoid schizophrenia through the eyes of one young man determined to survive and beat the odds. The only son of hard-working immigrants, Shubi was the quintessential All-American suburban kid. Born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, hard work was the family creed. While his classmates were going out to drink and party on the weekends he was being groomed for life in the family business, causing a rift between he and the childhood hero he called his father. Shubi’s strained relationship with his dad ultimately set in motion a chain of events which ultimately became the genesis of a downward spiral into madness, murder... and misunderstanding.

Shubi, for the first time, publicly reveals the story of his mental illness from a first-hand perspective. He shows how someone who has everything can go from “normal” to being a homicidal menace to society. In real-time fashion, he shares his journey through the dark underbelly of the penal system, "New Age-ism" and of the country’s extremely powerful mental hospitals/institutions. But more importantly, he shows how he faced and overcame the darkness within himself.

188 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 5, 2012

About the author

Motivational speaker and consult on psychological ilness.

S. murdered a fellow student while suffering form paranoid schizophrenia.