Mr. Niall Breslin:

It is a pleasure to be called a young man so many times and Deputy Troy tried to point out quite quickly that I am not. There was mention of the idea of strengthening the mind. I was diagnosed with general anxiety disorder and many people do not know what that is. We have all experienced anxiety and we know what it is. We experience it before an exam or doing something we do not want to do. It is a horrible feeling in one's stomach. I have that all the time and it does not go away. When I am lying in bed doing nothing, it is there. When I am doing something I enjoy, it is there. It is just part of my life. I accept it as an inner energy; it gives me an energy that other people do not have so I use and focus it. The irony is that the proof that one can strengthen one's mind is the fact that I am before the committee. If this happened 20 years ago, it would have left me crippled with anxiety but this does not even bother me any more. I find this conversation quite enjoyable, which shows how far my mind has come.