His parents had recently died, and so Marty decided to get some professional help.

In the summer of 1981 he walked into the office of a psychiatrist named Ike.

Her scoff.

I go into his office and we looked at each other and he said, Okay, why are you here?

Marty liked Ike and Ike.

Well, he seemed to see something in Marty at the end of the first session.

He said, I'm gonna take you on as a patient and he says, You know, I don't do that with everybody But this therapist wasn't like other therapists.

He cut me off from everybody.

So the only person I could turn to was Dr Ike, and from the moment Marty started seeing him, he began to change.

We didn't see him.

He lived around the corner and, like suddenly we didn't go there anymore like he wasn't coming over anymore.

It's a CE.

If somebody died, it was obvious it was obvious that I had the power and Marty followed the rules.

If Marty Markowitz had known what he was walking into when he first visited that office, he probably would have walked right out the door and never come back.

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Hi, Dr Hirsch.

Scott.

I'm a producer working for wondering And Bloomberg, I've been trying to get in touch with you because I've been talking to Marty Markowitz.

This is a story about power control and turning to the wrong person for help For more than 29 years.

When I constructed me to buy this house, I told me No, you can't use the master bedroom.

You're going to stay in the back section of the house.

Oh, I'm trying to think when it really got nuts.

It really got crazy because the parties were at their height and business was building.

It was like almost a fantasy.

In fact, there's a good word.

It was like working in fantasy land.

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