Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast.
Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast.
Leo Flowers
Raymond Diaz: The hug that saved my life
1 hour 36 minutes Posted Jun 13, 2019 at 10:00 am.
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Today, Raymond Diaz joins me. He went from gangs, to choir boy to Army Infantryman to now personal training and competing in MMA tournaments. We discuss:

  • overcoming drug dependence
  • the difference between killing yourself and wanting to die
  • surviving two suicide attempts
  • self-sabotaging
  • his girlfriend being pansexual
  • hypnotherapy and float therapy
  • the best mental health apps
  • learning what winning feels like
  • being raised by a functioning alcoholic
  • his personal mantra
  • rediscovering who you are