Episode 25 |Mental Health and Substance Abuse with First Responders
The Ryan Tillman Show
Ryan Tillman
5.0 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2019
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Retired police officer Nick Wilson joins us on our podcast today. He opens up about his career in law enforcement that eventually lead to his struggles with mental health and substance abuse. His goal now is to end the stigma of mental health in law enforcement and encourage those struggling to find help.
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| 0:00.0 | It wasn't the first thing I thought to thank God that I didn't die. |
| 0:04.0 | It wasn't my first question to ask God, please don't tell me I've killed somebody. |
| 0:10.0 | The first thing that I thought of was they're going to know. |
| 0:14.0 | Wow. |
| 0:15.0 | My department's going to know. Everyone's going to know. |
| 0:18.0 | And I have no more credibility. |
| 0:20.0 | From there I went to rehab 30 days and during that |
| 0:24.9 | experience 45% of the police of the people that I was there with were police officers |
| 0:29.0 | and I didn't realize that so many others had the same problem yo what's going on |
| 0:36.8 | welcome to another episode of the instant needed podcast where we discuss real issues involving law enforcement in the community. |
| 0:42.5 | It's your boy, Ryan Tillman, founder of Breaking Barriers United. |
| 0:45.2 | And I'm joined today by the one and only light skin brother from another mother, Mr. Oh, no, it's to Popo. |
| 0:52.3 | What's up, brother? |
| 0:53.4 | What's up, bro? |
| 0:54.0 | How you doing, man? I can't call it, man. It's up, brother? What's up, bro? How you doing, man? |
| 0:55.4 | I can't call it, man. |
| 0:56.7 | It's cooling down. |
| 0:57.7 | I was working a bar special Saturday night, and the temperature got down to, like, |
| 1:02.6 | the low 70s. |
| 1:04.0 | Man, I almost do a jacket on. |
| 1:05.5 | That is cold. |
| 1:06.7 | What? |
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