Dr Michael Blackmore
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first heard Aug 2026
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Talking General Practice · Pursuing a GP career after recovering from addiction · 7 Aug 2026
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And I think they probably saved my life.
Yes.
When I first went in there, I was like diagnosing and judging everyone.
You're a psychopath.
You're a pampot.
You're a slag.
Hi, Hayden.
But then I started sort of like looking at myself rather than other people.
And I started looking at myself.
I saw all these character defects that were what made me who I am.
I was like, I don't want these character defects anymore.
I want to try and change that.
And once I had that insight, then I could do something differently.
So at the very start, I could admit I was an addict.
Hi, I'm Michael, I'm an addict.
But I couldn't really accept it.
It was difficult to accept.
But once I accepted that when I put some sort of pill, powder, potion into my body, it set off that compulsion again.
It was like, oh, it's much easier not to use.
I realised that my addiction was bigger than me and I needed something bigger than that to beat it because I couldn't do it myself.
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