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David on toxic masculinity and finding hope in the darkest of times

Therapy Works

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The Pain of Addiction and Violence

I spent a long time, 11 years in total in and out of prison. On and off drugs I was sectioned once in the mental health institution. And yeah that's where I thought my storley stuff, that was my fix, it was the thing that made me feel okay. So there's this terrible kind of emptiness and chilliness and armour that it feels like you had to keep anisitising but also the sort of agony of isolation. You can't choose who to be disconnected from when you're shut down. Your whole system shuts down and you shut down from yourself. It's still in your body three decades later or more, that fear four decades is sitting in

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