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Sept. 1, 2025 – “If I can drink 20 cans a day, hate myself, and believe life wasn’t worth living, yet still find a way to start again, then so can you,” he added. “‘You are not beyond help. You are not too far gone. You are not worthless’. I thought all of those things about myself, and I was wrong,” said Christy. In his darkest hour, Christy remembered thinking, ‘Today I end my life’.
“That’s what I once believed,” he said candidly. “Those words lived inside me when I was at my lowest, when I was drowning in alcohol, hating myself, and living in crippling anxiety and depression for over 20 years.
“I thought the only way out was to stop existing. What I didn’t know then, and what I see clearly now is that those words weren’t the end.
“They were the beginning of something else. They marked the moment I ended the life that was destroying me, and started the slow, messy, painful journey into something new.
