Bess O'Brien
Bess O'Brien is a documentary filmmaker and the producing director of Writers for Recovery, a series of workshops for people recovering from susbtance use disorder. She is the co-host of , a project of Writers for Recovery and 开云体育 Radio.
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"When you have anxiety, or chronic depression, your mind is constantly going. And I tried opiates and realized that my brain was just quiet for a little鈥� -
"When you're told over and over, 'Your child's a problem child 鈥� he's bad, he's bad, he's bad, he's bad!' ... You believe your kid's bad."Note: This鈥� -
"There were three things you could be good at: fighting, drinking or sports. So, I stink at sports. I can't fight. But I guess I can drink."In this鈥� -
"You鈥檙e right, I probably do deserve to be in jail the rest of my life. Or, I do deserve to give my life for hers. But since I can鈥檛, let鈥檚 save somebody鈥� -
"I think in the past, people would say, 'Look. People don鈥檛 want to talk about this.' ... And the truth is, people want to talk about this stuff, if you鈥� -
"We're not alone. People who have this addiction, and people who love people who have this addiction 鈥� we're not alone."In this episode of My Heart Still鈥� -
A six-part series from Writers for Recovery and 开云体育 Radio, featuring voices from Vermont's recovery community. Coming February 25. Writers for鈥�