An unknown speaker delivers a candid spoken-word piece about managing multiple psychiatric medications, sobriety, suicidal ideation, and recovering from an eating disorder. He shares how fitness and yoga became tools of self-directed healing, ultimately driving him to become a fitness professional and motivating his recovery by the desire to be a present and healthy father.
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[00:01:29] it’s true I don’t have a thing wrong with you whatever 300 milligrams of Wellbutrin just went
[00:01:38] up from five to ten of Prozac tapering down on the Lexapro from ten to five but I just do that for
[00:01:45] fun and it is I haven’t drank in three months no no that’s lazy hacky never cheer for it because
[00:01:57] it’s not a joke
[00:01:59] you know what I want people to cheer for me is when I go into work in the morning I’m like didn’t kill
[00:02:04] myself yesterday that is an achievement for some people fitness and yoga and I found that through
[00:02:14] having an eating disorder about to wind up in a Western site for for those of you that have been
[00:02:21] sweet great job thanks for making it out um it was uh I have a real problem with Authority so I
[00:02:29] decided to not listen to anybody and learn for myself so that is uh what led me to become a
[00:02:35] fitness professional I helped myself and I thought man I can probably help some other people too and
[00:02:40] that became my job so about two years ago because I knew I wanted to be a dad and I couldn’t be a
[00:02:49] dad if I was in a bad state of mind you know what I mean that’s very very important so thank you