His deeds had also impacted the rest of his family. His mother, the Centre for Psychotherapy’s medical chairman, Nisha Rani, was shocked. Satish Kumar, his son, was devastated.
Kumar says,” I was absolutely broken,” his voice squeaking. When I think about those times, I’m also emotional.
Anand Mahey, Gopal’s brother, was tormented by grief because he had been sucked into his mental sanity by conviction. He continues to wonder,” Something would have happened if I’d just asked ( Gopal ), maybe if I’d asked my parents, maybe maybe I asked someone, or whatever.
Gopal has been a high-functioning addiction since 2010. But it wasn’t until he joined his family in working as a prison counselor a few years after that his double life began to weigh him.
What am I doing, I keep asking myself in my head at the back of my head? What kind of crazy is this, exactly? he recalls.
” There were many times ( when ) I’d ( be ) telling myself I needed to do something to stop,” he said. But I was really ensnared in that cycle because of the psychological power of addiction.