Brad Guy

Because I'm sure I was being like snappy and very frustrated.

So thank God I had the mental breakdown because it was a way to punctuate that time in my life in Breakfast Radio and that relationship and living in Gippsland.

So I moved back to Melbourne and...

got a new therapist and started to live the rest of my life and put my mental health first.

And that was the start of 2016.

So two and a half years later, I hadn't actually properly looked at my brain and what it was doing to my life because it was destroying it from within.

So that was another turning point, probably one of the bigger turning points in the whole 10 year saga, really.

Through doing the book, I realized that the healing is infinite.

It goes on forever.

And I'll never, ever stop learning about what happened to me that day and the impact it's had on my life.

And that's not a bad thing.

That's actually a good thing.

I don't ever want to stop learning or growing.

And that was kind of a bitter pill to swallow.

I was like, oh, this is going to be a part of my life forever.

But it's a beautiful thing.

I can't picture my life without the lessons that I've learned from it.

And that wisdom has given me so many gifts in my life that now I feel like the scars

are the price to pay for the wisdom that I've been able to gain and now to turn it around and use that wisdom to show other people that there is another side of trauma and that your trauma doesn't define you but your reaction does and that it's okay to have setbacks and to fall down and to have your mom take you to the toilet.

This is all part of healing and you've got to embark on that journey to live the rest of your life.