When I was 22 my girlfriend and I went to southern Japan to live in a buddhist temple. We both shaved off our hair. When I got there everyone was really into drinking and I slowly became an alcoholic. I would steal the liquor from the little offerings at shrines around town and buy Jack daniels from the grocery store. I slowly began to realize I was living in a cult and tried to convince my girlfriend to leave. She was massively indoctrinated and also convinced her brother raped her when she was 6 so she refused to leave and go back to her family. 3 years pass and my girlfriend slowly goes crazy. I think she was scizophrenic and would always say she saw ghosts and shit and could hear people's thoughts. All the spiritual Japanese cultists of course would reinforce her insane beliefs. I had a fuck all attitude at that point and would just drink in my room and go on 4chan and ignore my psychotic girlfriend. At one point she attacked me physically. Then she totally trashed the dining hall and smashed like 5 large ceramic teapots while a bunch of people were visiting. Another monk grabbed her by the neck and then I put that monk in a choke hold. Some crazier shit with her calmed down after that and I got into farming and then eventually convinced her to leave. We came back and pretty much once she moved back in with her parents we broke up.