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In this episode we sit down and have a great chat with Canadian author Darcy Patrick! 

We dig into his childhood, and what led him to a long battle with depression that started when he was in grade school! 

He walks us through him making the call for help and what led him to becoming an author with the help or more so push from his therapist. 

He has now written several books over the last 7 years since taking up writing. He teaches courses for many different organizations and has even created some of his own courses as well. He works with the Canadian Military, teaching his creative writing course. 

You can purchase anyone of his books from his website www.darcypatrick.com 

Taken from his website:

After a month of intense therapy my therapist started giving me home work. I would hand it in weekly, we would talk about what I had written and worked on changing my negative thoughts, changing the way I was seeing the world, it was working in ways I never dreamed possible. She told me I was a natural writer and that if I wrote a book I could change 1000’s of people lives who suffer in silence, who are too afraid to reach out and get help. Four years later I released my book “Why I Run” My story of how I won my life back from the darkness of depression.

Since the release of my book my life has changed dramatically. I have become a public speaker doing talks all around Southern Ontario for many different mental health originations to raise awareness on depression and mental health. My goal is to break the stigma  behind depression and mental health, help as many people as I can, let them know they are not alone.

We need to all stick together and stay united to win this war! Lets end this stigma around mental health and addictions!

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