Sam Troth

I work in construction.

And just the particular site that I was on at the time, I was in that smell.

That smell was, I could always smell it.

And the smell is like as structural steel as the smell of welding, as the smell of grinding, as the smell of steel.

And things got so bad, bro, that I didn't want to be anymore.

And I actually sat my wife down and I told her that I was going to tap out.

And she asked me to try and get some actual help.

And so I told her that I'd been using again and stuff and she already knew.

She's not a fucking idiot.

And so I went to a mate's farm for a few months and got my shit together and then came back to the family unit and started therapy every week and reached out to ACC and started that process of seeing a psychologist and getting a diagnosis for complex post-traumatic stress disorder and things like that.

they showed you to use bro you know for others that are watching this going through um so like big one big part of it is is talking is working through it and sitting with those feelings um going back and and sort of not reliving it but actually feeling it because in those moments of when it's happening you know it's

you're in a trauma response.

So you don't, that's why it becomes trauma because you don't have a chance to process it and then it stores up.

So it's actually going back and sitting with that shit, acknowledging it and moving it on, you know, um, things like that.

Um,

Exercise, believe it or not.

Well, you would believe it.

You would definitely believe it.

Yeah, exercise, bro.

Outside of working.