Long Walk Out of the Woods: A Physician’s Story of Addiction, Depression, Hope, and Recovery Audiobook (Free)

A physician stocks the darkest depths of his depression, suicidal ideation, dependency, and the essential lessons he discovered through many years of personal recovery.

Pediatric oncologist and palliative care physician Dr. Adam B. Hill suffered despair and disillusionment using the tradition of medicine, culminating in a spiral of unhappiness, alcoholism, and a dynamic suicidal plan. After that while in recovery from energetic addiction, he lost a colleague to suicide, additional revealing the extent of the secrecy and broken systems adding to an epidemic of professional distress within the medical field. By sharing his harrowing tale, Dr. Hill helps identify the obstacles and obstacles standing up in the way of mental wellness recovery, while pleading to get a revolutionary new method of how we treat individuals in material use recovery. In fighting stereotypes/stigma and teaching vulnerability, compassion, and empathy, Hill’s work has been lauded like a road map for better procedures at the same time when medical professionals all over the world are attempting in silence.