A Decay of Control: Toxoplasmosis or The Crazy Cat Lady Syndrome

What if your cat was making you crazy, or a parasite was controlling your behavior and emotions? As told by an expert in the field, a self-identified “crazy cat lady,” and the story of the famous cat painter Louis Wain, A Decay of Control is a self-reflexive journey into new research on the parasitic disease, Toxoplasmosis (known to be transmitted by cats), and its potential influence on human behavior and neurological disorders like Schizophrenia. The story of this disease forces us to ask the question: what if we weren’t the ones running our own show?