Adam Fout

The Bubble Hour

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Adam Fout is an addiction / recovery / mental health blogger and a speculative fiction / nonfiction writer in North Texas. Adam recounts his early experiences with drugs and alcohol, and describes how he tumbled instantly into addiction at a young age. His problems began to compound as drug use led to legal troubles, disrupted his education, and caused relationships to breakdown. Adam recounts how he worked through anger and resentments to find healing, and also how taking charge of mental health issues has affected his success in recovery. Visit Adam's website to connect and learn more about his work: www.adamfout.com Host Jean McCarthy's blog, books, and other information are available at www.jeanmccarthy.ca

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0:00.0	I own it, I did that, not proud, but that was me, and when I face it, I take back a little dignity, not looking for excuses, I just want to be free from power.
0:22.9	Weakness had on me.
0:25.4	Free, free, free, free, free.
0:33.4	Hi, everyone, and welcome to the bubble hour where real people tell real stories of addiction and recovery.
0:40.3	I'm Gene McCarthy, recovery author, blogger, and podcast host.
0:44.4	I've been chronicling my adventures in life after alcohol since my first day of sobriety over nine years ago in my blog, Unpickled, and in books like the Unpickled Holiday Survival Guide and my poetry
0:55.9	collection, The Ember Ever There. I tell my stories there and I hold space for your stories here.
1:02.0	And today I'm holding space for Adam Fout. He comes to us from Texas and Adam is a writer who
1:08.6	writes both fiction and nonfiction as well as blogging about his life in
1:12.9	recovery. Adam, welcome to the bubble hour. Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Well, I'm glad to have
1:18.8	you and we just want to get to know you and hear your story. So I will turn the mic over to you
1:25.1	and have you tell us about yourself and tell us your story.
1:30.2	Awesome.
1:32.0	So let's see.
1:34.6	I was born in San Diego, mostly in normal life.
1:39.1	And we moved around a lot and I realized at a young age that I, well, looking back,
1:46.2	I realized that I probably was suffering from depression, OCD, anxiety, I was binge eating.
1:53.0	I was doing all kinds of stuff that looking back, I see are signs of an addiction to come.
1:59.7	And I really believe I'm not one of those people who slowly became a drug addict, who slowly
2:06.3	started drinking.
2:08.8	I, as soon as I tried alcohol on drugs, I was like, this is it.
2:13.7	This is the thing for me.
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