Oct Bradley Owen Southwell

Seeking Serotonin Oct Bradley Owen Southwell

I laid lifeless on the floor of my empty condo with the walls collapsing into a coffin around me. Three decades of chronic illness had stolen everything from me, including the will to live. I dragged myself up from the cold tile and was stumbling towards the balcony door when I noticed a shadow demon on its knees staring back at me. I slid the ghostly reflection aside and fell through the burning gate.

Something changed on suicide watch that night. Suddenly, I was on a healing self-love journey; salsa dancing in Chile's vibrant culinary scene, hiking in the Atacama Desert, and connecting to the infinite while meditating on top of the Andes Mountains with a beautiful alternative doctor who had walked me out of the darkness.

I'll tell stories of my teenage struggles with addiction and explore the role neurotransmitters played in the substances that masked my root issue. I'll look at the early warning signs that I was slipping and uncover the tools that led to the light including the science behind meditation.

I invite you to join me on a tragic three-decade spiral into disconnection that becomes a love story about the importance of connection. It is the story of how I gained control of a mind I thought I had lost long ago.

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