UFC Fighter Opens Up About Mental Struggles

Sean Strickland, the UFC fighter who got very emotional when he started talking about his experiences as a child, his trauma. As he started to talk about it, his mind literally was viewing the footage of what happened to him. So if you're viewing old trauma and you get emotional, it's because your mind's experiencing the trauma again in real time. So it's very common for men not to share their trauma. The reason being is because generations, men had to be strong. Men weren't supposed to show weakness. You think about a thousand years ago, if the father of family is a really good hunter, he has a lot of food and then he's talking to some of the other warriors in the area and he starts to break down and cry and get real emotional, what's going to happen to his food supply? He's going to get attacked because they're going to think of that as weakness. So for generations and generations, it has not been sitting safe for men to express their feelings. So a common misperception is that you have to live, manage and cope with trauma. It's not true. We can heal trauma. What Sean did when he cried was a normal reaction for somebody who hasn't resolved their trauma. A normal reaction should be to be able to talk about it without crying and shaking and getting the emotion. That's the way it should be. All we have to do is to get the trauma to reprocess. It's been stored in a high definition format. The key is to get it out of that high definition, and that's possible. Sean does not have to live with that for the rest of his life. Neither do you want.