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Everything was falling apart.
My drug usage, I'm not gonna
say the drugs stopped working
but the drugs stopped working.
They still had me loaded,
but they didn't take away
the aggression that I
had known over the years.
The paranoia, it didn't help
me sleep like it used to
and it wasn't doing
what I needed it to do.
And so in 2010, it was only
in desperation that I went
and got help because the
military has taught me one thing.
You never give up. You never surrender.
You never concede to a weakness.
You just pull your boot straps and you go.
And it beat me to a place
where on the inside I felt
like if I didn't do
something, I don't know if,
I didn't know if I was gonna make it.
And so in 2010, I was
at West Palm Beach VA
and I was diagnosed with
chronic PTSD as a result
of military combat.
And then they also said, "Look,
you have some schizophrenia
you have depression, you have
bipolar and anxiety disorder."
So I was a mess. I was a mess.
And after I got that diagnosis,
I was somewhat relieved.