How Did You Develop Symptoms of Mental Illness as a Toddler?

"I was so challenged mentally and emotionally growing up that it made those basic childhood experiences very difficult for me to enjoy," he says. "If you grow up around abuse, and if you are abused as a child, you can learn these kind of maladaptive coping mechanisms and techniques", the singer-songwriter adds. 'i came to understand pain to be part of what i deserved'