"Nothing in my life can be harder than the sadness I felt, and that comforts me in the midst of chaos," Mark Bruce, a Scotsman who has been working as a music teacher at a Glasgow secondary school for 34 years, tells ARA. "I was a very overweight person. I weighed up to 105 kilos, I was unhappy with an addiction problem," he recalls. "In September 2022 I thought I would lose my life to alcohol and depression. But at that moment I made the decision to fight for myself."