Navy SEAL: “Not Killing People Is Hard” - DJ Shipley - #1112

“But once everything happened, we came off all those meds. I still had to be on quite a few of them. I wasn't, it wasn't a full med washout. We came off the hard, like painkillers. So I could feel all the pain. I was still on Cymbalta, still on Adderall, still on a bunch of these things, blood pressure medications to stop nightmares, all this stuff.”

“That was the thing that I didn't realize was going to be just like being back in that detox. Hospital coming off Cymbalta. If you've ever been on, what is that? It's an SSRI, but it's, um, it's really for pain management for everything else. But I was on that heavy doses of gabapentin.”

“Yeah. Because a lot of them, you have to stay on them. Like for them, like you're never getting off Adderall. You're never getting off Cymbalta. You're never getting off this. Never get off that. So we're still on them all, but now we'll have washed off of everything completely. And when you're truly sober for the first time, you get to realize the life you've”

“them. I wasn't, it wasn't a full med washout. We came off the hard, like painkillers. So I could feel all the pain. I was still on Cymbalta, still on Adderall, still on a bunch of these things, blood pressure medications to stop nightmares, all this stuff. It's hard to quantify with how bad it was.”

“A lot of pills. This is after you'd been washed out of them previously. Yeah. Because a lot of them, you have to stay on them. Like for them, like you're never getting off Adderall. You're never getting off Cymbalta. You're never getting off this. Never get off that. So we're still on them all, but now we'll have washed off of everything completely.”

“It's like my body is auto-rejected. I can't do it. I miss it. I didn't drink coffee for six months. I want to drink coffee. I'd get it right through my mouth. One. No, I just wouldn't drink it. Weird. So I'm laying there. This whole experience starts to happen.”

“Walk me through a typical day in the life of Steph Curry. He's got a minimum shot routine. He's got his warmups, his workouts, his massage therapy, the cold plunges, like whatever he does. He just does it unbroken for so much longer than everybody else.”

“all your addictions are gone in a minute. So I dipped. Just for reference, I dip two cans of Copenhagen every single day from the time I was 18 up until that morning, every single day, I did two cans of Copenhagen.”

“He'll say something. You'll look over at him and you're like, what? You'll have a full conversation. And then you realize you have the eye shades on. You look up, but you can see him. You lift him up and he is in the position. You can see what the eye shades and you'll watch everybody do this.”

“To hit that level. It's a universal. There's a, a cool thought experiment. Brian class wrote a book called fluke, and he's talking about, um, realities that are convergent or, uh, coincident. And he's basically saying, uh, if you were to run reality back a thousand times in all of the other universes, in how many of them would you have got an extraordinary outcome for talking about this?”

“when you're over there? We didn't have wifi for my first three or four deployments, no. Nice. It should be better now, but back in the day, they couldn't even prescribe you vitamin D because it was a hormone replacement. That's where they classified in the military. Now it's different. But I mean, fingernails falling out, hair falling out. Why? Not seeing the sun for six months.”