Given 6 Months to Live: From Hopeless Addict to Psychology PhD - Dr. John McMahon
In 1984, Dr. John McMahon was lying in a psychiatric hospital, battling severe alcoholism and drug addiction. The doctors gave him just six months to live and wrote him off as a complete failure. Instead of dying, he got sober, completely rebuilt his life, earned a PhD in psychology, and went on to teach the largest master’s course on addiction in the UK.
This episode dives into the FailCraft theme of turning your darkest rock-bottom moments into your most powerful assets. Dr. John exposes the massive blind spot of the modern medical model—which treats the addict but completely abandons the…
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