Hayden Hurst YouTube video.

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(03-28-2022, 11:45 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Former Bengal Mike Reid was a First Team All-Pro DT at age 25 and Pro Bowl at age 26.  He retired at age 27.  He said he had a problem with depression, but in the early 1970's when he played no "real man" would admit to any mental health problems.  Especially something like "depression" where all you had to do was "cheer up" to get better.

I went through a shitton of depression and even suicide attempts coming up from around 8 years old in 1967-90something back when the answer to everything was "buck up" and only think about your families reputation and blah, blah, blah..To top it off they would fill you full of experimental and very dangerous anti psychotic drugs then tell you it's all your own fault..
I gave up on even talking to shrinks and to this day want nothing to do with the quacks.. I have zero faith in them. The only thing I have faith in is my own ability to figure out how to deal with depression and to ride it out, the highs and lows..It always gets better..it took me years to realize that..  I still have no idea how I'm still alive after so many attempts on my own life, but I am and don't waste a lot of energy trying to figure out why..  I did manage to figure out how to manage my own addictions..That was tougher than the depression itself..