Jail cured my social anxiety and Avoidant Personality Disorder

it may have been forced exposure but it was therapy nonetheless. The CO’s couldn’t get a read on my positive energy. Jail isn’t supposed to be a place where you’re happy but I was.

Those first 30 days confused them too when I was in solitary. It’s not so bad but when I accidentally said I was okay to go to General population, I didn’t realize this was what I needed. The next 60 days I overcame my social anxiety.

Jail was rock bottom but it saved me.

There was something healing about being around masculine energy 24/7. As soft as I was and as soft as I still am, it helped me somehow and I can’t quite explain why. I just know that it helped. Some of the inmates were complete trash but some really did have good hearts.

Josh, Kevin, Freeze, Albert, Rivers

Those dudes helped me out a bunch and they don’t even know it.

For the first time it felt like I belonged. There was a sense of brotherhood.

I ain’t some hard ass or anything like that. As a matter of fact I consider myself to be quite soft still. I just simply chose to get something positive out of my stay in jail.