Michael Phelps opens up about his mental health
It’s been probably the toughest stretch that I’ve ever gone through. There are so many uncertainly and we’ve just basically fighting to make sure we stand some kind of routine to try to keep it as normal as possible. I’ll say for me I’ve run into a couple of scary times where I had some thoughts that I probably shouldn’t have had that weren’t good to have. I think that the best thing for me is I’ve been able to have the people that I love the most help me get through these times. For the people who are struggling make sure you’ve opening up and talking about it. I think there was for a handful of weeks I just tried to fight it myself and it got me to a pretty scary situation. My wife is somebody who single-handedly really helped me got through it.
Michael Fred Phelps II (born June 30, 1985) is an American former competitive swimmer and the most successful and most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 28 medals. Phelps also holds the all-time records for Olympic gold medals (23), Olympic gold medals in individual events (13), and Olympic medals in individual events (16). When he won eight gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games, Phelps broke fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz’s 1972 record of seven first-place finishes at any single Olympic Games. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Phelps had already tied the record of eight medals of any color at a single Games by winning six gold and two bronze medals. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Phelps won four gold and two silver medals, and at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he won five gold medals and one silver. This made him the most successful athlete of the Games for the fourth Olympics in a row.
Sources:
- https://youtu.be/gea6HOo6ZEM
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Phelps
- https://www.marketwatch.com/story/michael-phelps-dives-into-the-dramatic-emptiness-many-olympic-athletes-suffer-in-a-new-hbo-documentary-2020-07-29
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