AJ McLean

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251 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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It's still a work in progress, but when we finished up the last tour, the DNA tour, we finished it in May of 2023.

My wife and I were already separated, so we were living separately, so I kind of had a little bit more

Freedom to kind of go where I want and do what I need for myself.

And I decided to take a little trip to Scottsdale, Arizona.

Okay.

And I did a IOP.

And for those that don't know what that is at home, it's an intensive outpatient program for mental health.

You know, I was already going into two years sober at the time.

So my sobriety was good.

But I wanted to dig a little deeper and figure out what was at the root of my addiction.

Because a lot of people don't realize that as an addict, the drugs and the drinking, that's all symptomatic.

It's not at the core of the issue.

It's different for everybody, whether it's PTSD, trauma, abuse.

For me, I suffer from a condition I call piece of shit-ism.

So, yeah.

I'm gonna TM piece of shitism where literally, you know, my entire life, I never felt good enough.

I never felt...

worthy of success or love or respect or compassion or flattery or compliments, any of it.

Very low self-esteem.

And it shocked most people because they're like, how can you have low self-esteem and do what you do?

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