Sippin' On Gin & Juice

This week's Quintessentially Mental: The Podcast explores addiction as a mental illness. SureEyes chats to DavidP AKA David Astronomy (because he likes to get high).

Transcript

SureEyes: [00:00:00] you're listening to quintessentially mental a podcast hosted by SureEyes. Please note that this host is not a mental health practitioner or professional, and this podcast is not made for treatment of any mental illness. Hey, y'all, you're listening to quintessentially mental: the podcast and I'm your host. Today's episode is what a tricky one, you know, it's it's about addiction.

[00:00:39] Um, and how addiction is actually a mental health disorder. I don't think people realise this. Um, the title of this podcast is called sippin on gin and juice. an ode or an adage to the old rap song Snoop song. So, but I think, think, you know, it's, it's act given the culture we live in where so many things have been normalised, you know, where things like overeating or over-drinking or, um, , or, you know, all these different things where, you know, As long as it's legal, we're almost okay with it.

[00:01:30] You know, and it's almost like we view addiction as only something that pertains to illegal substances. So today my guest who will be joining, meaning me, um, is a very good friend of mine. He goes by David P. Um, we've been friends probably since about. 2017, I think, um, not realising that we actually have mutual friends, um, in our past lives.

[00:02:06] Yeah. We just didn't realise it. When I was living in Cape town, I was actually friends with people who are quite close to him. Um, you know, Dave and I have partied together. We've done a lot of, you know, drinking together, a lot of champagne. And I don't think that we. Or I ever realised he had, you know, addiction problems until

[00:02:32] he opened up to me about it later on in our friendship. And, you know, I he's been in and out of rehab. He's been in and out of in a, which is narcotics anonymous. He's being in an out of AA. Um, And, you know, it's not something that I've judged him for. It's not something that has determined the course of our friendship.

[00:02:55] I think, you know, obviously I I've been impacted by the, the choices he's made, where either I hadn’t, you know, maybe the only time I got to see him was when he was in rehab or. Otherwise, he, you know, he wouldn't speak to me because he didn't want to lie to me. So hopefully we'll be able to, you know, have a bit of a in-depth conversation about addiction and how it's actually a mental illness.

[00:03:28] Um, something I didn't realise. So stay tuned and we'll be, we'll be chatting to David soon. 

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[00:03:55] SureEyes: [00:03:55] Welcome back to quintessentially mental.

[00:03:57] I'm joined by one of my very good friends, David P or David astronomy.

[00:04:06] He, before we started recording, he, he, uh, made it very clear that, you know, we it's part of, you know, just an AA. Protocols that we never refer to people part of that community as they full name and surname, just to protect obviously the anonymity. Um, yeah. Hey David, how you doing?

[00:04:41] DavidP: [00:04:41] Yeah, I'm good. Cherize how are you?

[00:04:47] SureEyes: [00:04:47] Yeah, I’m tired. Like we've been saying just default settings of mom of a three month old. DavidP: Yeah, for sure. That and having mental illness, SureEyes: mental wellness...