Transcript
To be frank if I haven't been in counseling and treating this,
I would be one of two things right now.
I would either be dead which was my first choice
but I was too afraid to do that too, you know?
And my other choice was to stay loaded
on anti-anxiety medication just to survive.
And I think for several years that it really kept me alive
and I'm grateful for that.
However, it became unnecessary after years of treatment
and it really became unnecessary when I got sober.
So today I never thought
that I would ever have a different way to live.
Even my doctor, my MD, has said that to me.
She said, "You are doing so well," and she said,
"I honestly never thought that there was any other way for you
to live and I'm so glad that you took the chance to get clean
and sober to find out."
And that was like such a nostalgic moment for me
because she noticed and I'm not just a number.
They know me by my first name.