Cracked Up [PsychologyToday.com]

A documentary by director Michelle Esrick based on Hammond's life as a childhoodtrauma survivor: Cracked Up will premiere that evening at DOC NYC. One screening is already sold out; a second has been added.

Hammond wrote about his struggles overcoming a terribly traumatic childhood and his resulting addiction in the New York Times best selling God if You're Not Up There I'm F***** in 2011. As an adult, he suffered multiple hospitalizations and many misdiagnoses by the physicians who saw him. Ultimately, his early trauma was identified and he began treatment for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Synesthesia played the pivotal role in that breakthrough as you'll see later in this story.

I was privileged to meet Hammond for lunch with his director and executive producer Regina K. Scully in Manhattan earlier this year. His pain is palpable in person, but so are his charisma and warmth.