Welcome back to the peripheral. First and foremost, I want to say that this episode is not trying to knock prescription medications.

Some of us need balance that we cannot attain through other methods. I read a perfect meme about this. It says,

if you can't make your own neural transmitters,

storebot is just fine. We all have our self-doubts, look to social media to see others,

including our idols, living what we perceive to be perfect lives. We think that they have

their life together, so we ask ourselves, why can't we get ours on track?

Tonight, I have a very special guest.

Mental illness does not discriminate whether you're famous or not.

And we'll find out that even the captain of the ship has his problems.

We're going to be talking about you today, Captain.

I'm so excited.

So essentially, when we talked last time, you told me this whole crazy story about you

playing at bars, working a full-time job, it's stressing you out, and then getting

on prescriptions that made everything worse. So that's the story that I want you to tell.

So I actually worked three jobs for a while. I worked at a bank on Monday through Friday. I

believe I'd normally start at nine, get done at three. Then I'd drive

from downtown to the south side of town. And I'd teach from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. And I'd do that Monday,

Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday morning, like 10 to 2.

And then I'd play gigs normally Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and sometimes Sunday.

So I was working a lot.

So what were you teaching?

I was teaching guitar.

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