John has type one diabetes but refuses to be diligent about checking his blood sugar, or taking his insulin. A social misfit and an outcast for many years, John wants to be considered a regular guy, and pretends to be one by eating whatever he wants without regard for his illness. He has been in a near-coma and hospitalized multiple times. His parents want to stop enabling his self-destructive behavior, but won't kick him out of the house because they fear he'll die without their supervision.
Genres: Documentary , Reality
Keywords: addiction , intervention , addiction-recovery , alcohol-abuse , alienation , anxious , apologetic , bad-habits , candid , cautionary , coping-mechanisms , coping-with-grief , disapproving , disheartening , disturbed , drug-addiction , drug-rehabilitation , dubious , familiar , family-dynamics , family-tensions , frustrated , group-intervention , hard , intimate , introspective , misery , narcotic-abuse , psychological-trauma , reflective , television-documentary