Anyone else watch Matthew Perry's interview with Diane Sawyer? Wow. It was really eye-opening to my wife. I had told her the same things about myself and she kind of brushed them off as me being weak. Then, when she hears him say he was taking 50+ Vicodin a day and had been in over 60 detoxes, spending over $7 million in rehabs and hospital stays, I think it finally set in for her. I have long since given up caring if he gives a shit but it was the first time she acted like she had any sense of understanding what I was going through in that last year of the wheels coming off for me.
Then, three days ago, the lead singer of one of the bands I play in walked into his house and blew his brains out in front of his wife. He was 31. His father-in-law and I are going over to the house to clean up that mess, literally.
Everyone, please be kind to yourself. As a friend of mine says, "Stay reachable, stay teachable and stay humble"