It's mind-body-spirit, right? The three-legged stool. You take one of those legs away, you got nothing. I like to deal with the journey part. Like, what does it feel like to go into the gym when you're a hundred pounds overweight and how do you get through that day? And how do you go back and what's going on inside of your heart and your mind? Well, after the film, [the young men who had been my coaches] just disappeared. As I understood it was an experiment, they were very young, none of us really knew what we were doing, and it was an experiment.
Therapists tend to be appalled, you know, that that just happened but, you know, they were not therapists, they were kids and well-meaning and loving kids but you know, they were kids. And what happened was, I got addicted to opiates.
Real bad. It was because, you know, partly because it was prescribed. I told the doctor that it wasn't a good idea to prescribe these. He said you have to take this protocol or else find yourself another guy.
So I started taking Vicodin, and within a short period of time, I was taking, rather than Vicodin, milligrams of Narco, milligrams of OxyContin, milligrams of morphine sulfate, and benzos every day.
The day before I went into rehab, the paramedics found me in a hotel room turning blue, because of a friend of mine that found me. It was literally divine intervention because I was useless. I was completely incoherent, I had nothing to do with anything. Coming back from that was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life. People don't realize the magnitude of the suffering that's involved in withdrawing from opiates on a number of levels.
After nine months and almost dying, and gaining the weight back and all that, I started eating an essentially plant-based diet and I started exercising and meditating. Within a year and a half, I dropped about pounds. I wanted to kill myself every day and for two weeks. And I was freezing all the time, I couldn't sleep, my GI system was a mess, my biochemistry was a mess, my neurochemistry was a mess and all I could see was the end of life and I just didn't want to live another day.
I'm lying in my bed, just staring at the ceiling thinking, this is how it is, this is how it played out, this is it. This is it, it's over. And for some reason that had me thinking.
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