Rick Perry

So what I was looking at, and I was interested in this from the brain regenerative side of it.

I had about as bucolic a life as you've ever had.

I never had anybody...

mistreat me of anything that you could even get close to calling traumatic effect.

I had no trauma in my life.

I grew up on a dry land cotton farm, you know, 60 miles from Abilene, Texas, 16 miles from closest place that had a post office in a part of Texas that was just a lovely, wonderful, loving place.

My mom and dad loved me and I knew it.

And, you know, my scout master and my principal and my

superintendent of my Sunday school class, who, by the way, were all the same person.

And he drove the bus and was a football coach.

But I had a as non-traumatic growing up period as you can imagine.

So I was concussed, severely concussed three times.

twice in athletic events, and I'm talking about knocked out completely for over one minute.

And those are severe concussions.

Two times athletic events, one time unloading horses, knocked completely out.

So what I know now is that as I got to pilot training and I started noticing that I was having trouble sleeping and that this

thing that I understood later in life was anxiety had crept into my life.

So I had, I'm going to put it in the mild category, anxiety and insomnia.

I went into a very odd line of work in politics to have those two kind of things.

And I matched them rather well.