James Patrick Stuart: Anxiety, Addiction, Grief and Finding Purpose

but even this is you can't really have a lot of ego doing interviewing because then i just make it all about me i'd have my own right

Hey, James, how are you?

You know what I did yesterday? You got to just kind of have that thing.

And I want you to be relaxed.

That's the difference

here.

It's relaxed.

The thing that's not relaxing about this is because I kind of know, I know your book.

I know what... rocks your world which is talking about the stuff that's kept you alive right yeah because because there's a lot of stuff that could have taken you out um yeah many yeah yeah and and and same i i i think that you know it's very nerve-wracking to to you know there's a certain persona that i i put out i want you to believe that i you know have done shakespeare i want you to believe i would

like you that's part of what i'm selling yeah

but but at the end you know the older i get The more I realize it's like if I just like you said, if I can help one person realize it's like, guess what? You're not alone.

You may think you are.

And you and I have both had moments in our life where we thought we were on the dark side of the moon and the light will never reappear.

You more than me, by the way, I've read your book and I have so much respect that you have walked through it.

But I. I've medicated myself.

Is yours depression? Mine was anxiety to begin with that I medicated because my father was in rock and roll.

He was part of the British Invasion.

So weed and alcohol was just a given.

That was just part of life.

So when anxiety showed up, well pot and alcohol took care of that right so i went to

therapy

now the it's interesting

for me yeah and and uh people talk to me about because i smoked weed when i was younger quite a bit but I didn't have anxiety.

Now, if you're having an anxiety attack or even have anxiety and you smoke weed, it calms it? Well, no, I think this is where it's really important that I say this is

my story.