Meet Marty Verlaan—He's Walked Backwards for 11 Years, Believing it Helps Others
Meet Marty Verlaan—He's Walked Backwards for 11 Years, Believing it Helps Others On 2/17/21 at 9:00 AM EST Verlaan has been walking backwards for 11 years. He is one of 300,000 Canadians living with schizophrenia, having been diagnosed with the condition after his mental health began deteriorating in 1995, at the age of 35. Not long after, Verlaan found himself unemployed, homeless and facing divorce with his wife taking custody of their children. It was around this time that he began to hear voices and to walk backwards. Around that same time he met Stephen Hosier, who was a film student a...
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