A U.K. man who was unable to play with his children for four years says electricity has been causing him extreme fatigue and weight loss.

Bruno Berrick, 48, says he, his partner and three daughters had to move to a remote caravan in the middle of the countryside when he lost weight and became so weak he couldn’t do something as simple as reading a book.

Berrick, a builder and greyhound trainer, says he was a “normal guy” before he started suffering from fatigue four years ago, Leicestershire Live reports.

It took Berrick years and 200,000 pounds (US$264,980) of travels to the U.S. and Germany to realize he was suffering from a rare and controversial condition called Electrosensitivity.

The condition is also known as Electromagnetic hypersensitivity, Electrophobia, or Electromagnetic Field Intolerance Syndrome.

While some experts say he is making it up, Berrick and his partner of 11 years Lisa say it is all too real.

He said: “All these people are saying ‘they’re idiots’ and all that but I’m a normal lad. I was a builder — I’m not one of these to go off on one.

“I’m living proof of what it does to you.

“I had a clicking and popping sensation in my head when there was electricity on, and a burning face when I went outside.”

Eventually, he started to find answers in the American west coast city of Seattle where he tested positive for pesticide poisoning.

He said: “Basically, it stripped my immune system. It went down to nothing and I kept getting infection after infection and it’s turned into this.

“Now, if I’m near a mobile phone I nearly collapse from the radiation from it.”

The couple tried moving into a caravan in a remote part of Rutland to escape the radiations. Six months later, Berrick was “really starting to pick up,” his partner said.

“He started to gain some weight and he was able to play with the kids again which he didn’t do in the whole four years at all, he couldn’t even read a book or anything,” she said.

When the couple moved back they set their sights on their new home in the small town of Rothwell in Northamptonshire, which has been coated with electricity-proof paint to block out 5G and radio waves.

Berrick is also building a separate, low-tech shelter for himself where he plans to spend the rest of the winter so his family can keep the heating on.

He said: “I can’t have the electric on: no lights, no heating, no TV, nothing.

“If I do, my eyes go black within 10 minutes, my eyes sink into the back of my head and I look about 10 years older.

“When we used to live next to a phone tower and I was shaking physically and trembling inside.

“When I stay in this house I’m an absolutely normal man.”

His partner added: “He cannot leave the house because people are walking around with phones all the time and within five minutes of him walking past them he will be seriously paralyzed.

“It’s hard for people to get their head round it, but when you’ve lived with it for four years it’s absolute hell really.

“You know what it’s like these days, it’s technology-crazy.”

(SD-Agencies)