Please Don’t Do This To Yourself
It wasn’t exactly a nervous breakdown, but it was something close. Around the time I was finishing Ego is the Enemy, I ran into a wall. I had just watched American Apparel implode. I had lost a
It wasn’t exactly a nervous breakdown, but it was something close. Around the time I was finishing Ego is the Enemy, I ran into a wall. I had just watched American Apparel implode. I had lost a mentor and friend I had looked up to and cared about (who had let me know the feeling was not mutual). The talent agency I had started at went bust, too. These people who said they “saw themselves in me” turned out to be people they didn’t want to be. I myself was becoming someone I did not want to be.
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