Transcript: “I try not to give my illness any ownership over me”

Debra and Zach Medlyn

Transcript: “I try not to give my illness any ownership over me”

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“I try not to give my illness any ownership over me”

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00:00:00

when I first looked at you when all the other babies wear on the way
Nursery you were still wide awake you are very um
Q & I could just remember saying all
can I take me from one end of the spectrum to the other not real
realizing how that predictable
that was going to be what is your mental illness

00:00:30

Eminem not going to find myself and I what do the voices
where is it a lot of positive things to tell me
the world of a bar clips is coming to town
144 chosen from a child is this real and umm the temperature
current president of the Antichrist and I play some small role in the
the world affairs stories come they are the most 79 to tell me jokes really
really funny jokes that I can never make up and take me on cosmic

00:01:05

is the time and space I have not even left my room what’s the biggest
is lesson you learned since being diagnosed in Houston the greatest help for you long way
the fact that I can make it through this if I can quit smoking cigarettes I can do anything
things like grasshoppers frozen the church and my mom
what church because my spirituality is really tied the violinist
does you give it ownership over us
you so fine and I trying to get Phione the city on a ship

00:01:40

how does government on a straight talk to other people about me
pins and sometimes I will just say that the people say what is your sign
home and sometimes you say handsome problems
another times if im feeling more comfortable a sign that you have a mental health
mental illness recently its been easier to say your
sundry open about it because aqua proud of you
where are we now because you put up with his standing

00:02:15

what have been the happiest saddest moments of your life since I’ve been diagnosed

watching you walk to work a hospital mental ward
preview worth
the greatest moments
Haband does days when the medication
allows you to be more like yourself with your humor your love

00:02:50

box your love of movies your ability to have conversation
when is the greatest day of my life with coming home
can you run the porch in Houston
I want to go to the store and get a book because sac
what do you want
sac there is hope there’s a bright shining lie
into the dark tunnel at the hang on help is on the way

00:03:25

covers possible I’m proud of me do you need to ask a decimal
Burberry proud of you use confetti
can you take the high road thank you for breathing


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