John Bigler:  

Well, my story is not something to boost about, but after high school I moved briefly to Halfmoon Bay, California meaning to start college, but moved back here, struggling with Bipolar 1 (manic-depression) and alcohol addiction, until I met a great girl, Lynn Barto, who was my neighbor at these apartments on 1200 E near the U of U. In love, I managed to more-less quit drinking for 2 years here, then in Flagstaff AZ. where I moved with her, since she took a job as a radiology tech, while I worked at a grocery store, again planning on starting college there. I was engaged to her and she already had a 4 year old, but at the last minute she tells me she wants another child before Tauna got to be too old, well, I knew I had problems that would probably prevent me from becoming a psychologist and didn't really want one of my own, terrified I wouldn't be able to financially capable of raising one, so I left & moved back to Salt Lake, got out of control with depression and alcohol and pain killer's, until jail straightened me out (forging prescription's). After rehab for the 3rd time, I got out and got a full-time job at Denver Wholesale Florists - starting as a driver. I had been seeing a psychiatrist since 22 and finally quit trying useless antidepressants, got an ADD diagnoses at 30-31 and this stimulant wonder-drug obliterated the chronic bad depression, my brain operated 3 times better and as a life-saving bonus it's "side effect" made my drinking problem end as...Expand for more