![]() “I got to see myself shouting at the wind,” McDermott tells Paste in a phone interview.Ī few years before that manic episode, a more severe break earned McDermott his bipolar diagnosis.Īs McDermott describes it at the beginning of his new memoir, Gorilla and the Bird, he had gone on a tear for the delusive cameras throughout Manhattan’s East Village, careening through traffic, replacing a soccer goalie and encouraging his teammates to shoot on him-in a Scottish brogue-before jogging around the field bare-assed. ![]() All this took place while the real film crew kept rolling. His request to use Apple Pay was a literal reality check if the Taco Shop cashier said yes, then McDermott would have known the scene was fake. His psychotic breaks tend to make him believe he is being filmed for a TV show, a delusion known as the Truman Show delusion. The cinéma vérité camera crew filming him at the moment (for a documentary and a series of mental health and criminal justice reform PSAs) must have added an absurd element that McDermott, a former lawyer turned comedian-cum-memoirist-cum-mental health advocate, can surely appreciate. As the psychosis took hold, he laughed at patrons to their faces, inquired about purchasing his order via Apple Pay-something he knew, even in his semi-lucid state, they would not have-and, eventually, screamed obscenities at an employee while lying flat on his back in the rain-soaked parking lot. ![]() ![]() Zack McDermott had his first major manic episode in over five years at a Taco Shop in his hometown of Wichita, Kansas. ![]()
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