For most of his life, Isaiah Heller has oscillated between panic and prescriptions, alcohol, and marijuana to numb difficult emotions and a mind that “moved at 100 miles a second.”
The U.S. Army veteran tried to take his own life twice. He couldn’t keep a job, and his driver’s license was once revoked after he suffered a trauma-induced seizure disorder. He attempted—but walked out of—cognitive processing therapy, a specialized clinical treatment to reframe past events and gain emotional freedom.
