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I just wish I got help sooner.

Nicholas Provenza (US Marine Corps, 2018 - 2022) talks about how drinking really messed him up.

Transcript

Looking back at it,
I just wish I got help sooner

because it really

messed me up, you know,
showing up late to work

smelling like alcohol.

I mean, I had my junior Marines
taking care of me at work

because of how bad I was
showing up,

you know, in the condition
that I was showing up and,

you know,

it's just not the image
that I wanted for myself

because I knew
I was better than that.

But, you know, I just,
I couldn't

I couldn't manage
showing up to work

and be a marine
with the traumas.

You know, I had to give
it a break somewhere.

I had to release
some weight off

my backpack of emotions
that I was carrying, you know,

And the way I did that
was drinking.

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