Via DailyMail:
“One day I woke up and thought today’s the day I end it all. I was going to smash the car into a bridge at high speed.
He says: “One day I woke up and thought today’s the day I end it all.”
Tyson continues: “I was heading towards this bridge, I was going to smash the car into the bridge at very high speed, I just didn’t have the ambition to live anymore.
“Before I got to the bridge I heard a voice saying ‘don’t do this, you’re going to destroy your family’s life’ and I immediately pulled the car over and that was the first time I thought, ‘right, now or never. I need to get well immediately’.”
“I always knew I was unwell, but I always put it to the back of my mind because I had a job to do…my job was to become heavyweight champion of the world so you put all your eggs in one basket and you’ve an addictive personality, it’s all or nothing in everything you do and you’ve achieved your dream and there’s no further you can go in your career, that was Everest and that’s it – it all came crashing down.”
Even the most successful people have issues with mental health.
Glad he got the help he so desperately needed.
Getting punched in the head for a living can’t help though.
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