my name isjohn scully. i'm 82 years old. diagnosed with severe depression, incurable ptsd and incurable anxiety disorder. i sufferfrom somatic pain, chronic pain — that means pain that they can't diagnose and assume it's psychiatric. i've been in this condition for roughly a0 years. all of my illnesses, really, go back to childhood, when i was growing up in wellington, new zealand, where i suffered from chronic, desperately bad asthma. that was not good for my health, or my mental health, and i think that's the start of my mental decline right there. because of my asthma, i missed most of the school year. i was not going to make anything of myself. and with the urging of my parents, they put me into a trade, washing floors at a new local newspaper — that's how i got intojournalism. john eventually started a career in broadcast journalism, working for various news outlets, including cbc and the bbc. here is a variety of press passes and accreditations from — that's india, i think. this is a press pass from russia. this is us