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Tragedy doesn’t always happen to someone else, but even if it did, would you help if you could? “Anyone can get broken.” The words effortlessly formed by a marine who once did not believe them himself, until a tragic plane crash sent his life down a path he never thought possible. A teenage girl who doesn’t expect to grow up, and lacks the will to do so. A young boy tormented by his own spiraling thoughts he could not control. These are just a few of the thousands of stories that far too often end in heartbreak for family and friends. Silouan, Tonja, Kevin, Misha, Craig, and Ally each share their remarkable stories of triumph over trauma, pain, and mental health challenges. Follow them as Dr. Thomas Joiner takes a look into what leads a person to these dark places, but more importantly, how to help them find their way back.
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00:19On March 11, 2005, I woke up, it was like, I felt every painful moment in my life that
00:27I didn't deal with, that I didn't address, that I didn't think mattered to me, I felt
00:32in one morning.
00:35Some of my friends and family came to visit me and I remember the look on their face.
00:39They were horrified.
00:42If I do this, the pain don't leave, it just transfers to them.
00:50I look at those pill bottles piling up and then you question everything.
00:56Am I as tough as I thought I was?
00:59I guess I wasn't really tough.
01:01I guess it was just all an illusion.
01:03I guess it was just all in my head.
01:10There's no one on this planet who doesn't know what it's like to hurt, what it's like
01:13to feel, what it's like to cry, what it's like to think you are absolutely broken.
01:18Everyone knows those kind of thoughts.
01:23I can, I can, yeah, I go to that dark place, but I don't stay there.
01:27I was never supposed to live in there.
01:29We're supposed to go through the dark places, you know, and I think that, you know, when
01:32they say the light at the end of the tunnel, you know, the light is not an illusion, the
01:36tunnel is.
01:42I was always tired.
01:44I was always tired.
01:45You heard me say, you know, I'm tired, I'm tired.
01:47But now I'm determined when I die, I'm not going to die tired.
01:51I'm going to die empty.
01:55I was dreaming.
01:57I was really dreaming.
02:00For the first time in my life, I was learning to visualize my future instead of remember
02:07my past.
02:19anyone can be broken, but this is the most important thing.
02:27Anyone can live.
02:30Anyone can find hope.
02:41Everyone can find hope.
02:42Final call.
02:46You are just going to die.
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