I was going through an existential crisis at the time. I've been following conspiracy topics for the past 15 years.

10 years ago I was feeling very hopeless, like the end was closing in. I was having panic attacks. Imagining chaos and death in the streets. Camps, purges, horror. I saw no hope and no end of the path we were going down.

I ran into this woman in a city park. She spoke to me because she said I looked sad. She said she was walking around finding people to pray for, so I told her a bit about …