Patrick Foster

the problem solved is the start of a lot of hard work and a very long journey.

But until you do that, you actually can't, you can't move forward.

You can't get anywhere.

Um, and, and, and that's why it's the most important thing.

Do you know what I mean?

Yeah, and that was the thing is, like, it was almost like at that point I'd tried everything to solve this problem and I had to just, like, hold my hands up and surrender to the addiction and say, right, it's beating me.

Mm-hmm.

And by doing that, I was then able to sort of move forward.

And it was the start of a long journey and like a challenging one, but one that I look back now on and yeah, it's worth it.

Yeah, I mean, so like my girlfriend, who's now my wife at the time, my... We get you.

Yeah, she's a saint, that's for sure.

Anyway, she was sort of the first to come and...

I basically couldn't sort of speak.

I wasn't in a way of any sort of state of communicating.

And I mean, she obviously knew like how serious it was.

And she said, your parents are on the way.

I said, look, they can't come today.

I can't speak to them.

I'm so tired.

I'm so broken.