" Imagine that the Whisky is the Fire " "... and that the message is that which is known only to the soul of man " (McCullers, 1936, p. 203). I have decided to write this blog to help chronicle my severe battle with mental illness and subsequent recovery that robbed me of the latter part of my 20s and reconcile the emotional, physical, and mental abuse I endured as a young boy. Regarding the former, at the time I was engaged to the woman who would later become my wife, and life was pretty good; one day I walked into our home and the TV was tuned to SportsCenter. Funny the things you remember when a tragic event occurs, and within a span of minutes, my life began to change. What I saw on that screen triggered something deep inside of me, I am not...