born bad, mad, or evil, but we're born innocent creatures and then life happens to you. people say things to you and do things to you and you're traumatized and you never have an opportunity to recover. and so you repeat cycles, hurting people hurt people. so that's the context in which i really feel comfortable speaking about it because what i know is we are all human and we are all flawed and we make mistakes. so the thing is when you do make mistakes and when you do -- you know, this is -- it's kind of personal, but i consider myself an upstanding, righteous, sensitive, thoughtful person, but i also know that there's a dark side of me, you know, that i have anger issues, things that i've learned through therapy, which is something that i think especially in the black community we tend to be hesitant to do. but all of us could benefit by mental health counseling. >> a little self-introspection as well. >> for sure. and in fact, october is national mental health awareness month. so just like we go to have a