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Part Two: How The Dilbert Guy Lost His Mind

Behind the Bastards

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Scott Adams's Experience With Spasmotic Dysphonia

In 2004, Scott Adams develops the symptoms of a rare neurological condition called spasmotic dysphonia. He's trying every scientific and also like herbal fringe remedy that he can come across because he's just increasingly desperate. Eventually, this is what he says kind of causes the collapse of his marriage. And first, his ability to kind of do public speaking goes away. But soon his ability just like talk to his wife to talk to his friends goes away. It does go off the rails.

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