This is a YouTube video titled "A Judges Wake-Up Call Changed Everything with Barrett Brooks #shorts" containing a personal narrative by Barrett Brooks. In this excerpt, Barrett reflects on his struggles with substance abuse, social challenges, and legal troubles during high school and college, describing how a judge's intervention and mandated AA meetings marked a turning point in his life.
I realize now is that was the first time where I was trying to fill this hole with things. Drinking, partying, social interactions that were with people who didn't even like me and I didn't like they were bullies to me. And yet I sought them out for trying to like, fill this hole. Sought out sex and women trying to fill this hole. And it took me getting arrested for the third time, drinking twice in high school and once in my freshman year of college before it finally began to stop. And the only reason it did was when I got arrested in college because I had been through pre trial intervention in high school. The judge was a little more harsh and said, you have to go to six months of AA meetings as a precautionary view into what your future will be like if you continue on this path. You were on legal probation for a year with a probation officer. And then the school put me on probation for a year where if I got in legal trouble again, I'd be kicked out for at least a year.