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Depression is REAL | Fergus Crawley

Name: Depression is REAL | Fergus Crawley
Uploaded: 2024-06-05T17:00:05+00:00
Duration: 36 s
Channel: Rob Lipsett
Description: In this personal monologue, the speaker recounts his former belief that depression was a non‑existent, convenient excuse used to avoid responsibility. He…

5 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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In this personal monologue, the speaker recounts his former belief that depression was a non‑existent, convenient excuse used to avoid responsibility. He describes how, starting in early 2016, he began to experience concrete physical and mental symptoms—trouble sleeping, loss of appetite, and a sharp decline in gym performance (failing to lift previously achievable weights). These intertwined issues caused his training and overall life to unravel, leading him to confront the reality that depression is a genuine, impactful condition.

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If you'd asked me before 2016, does depression exist, I would have said no, convenient excuse for people to avoid responsibility or hard work. Or is mental health a real thing? No, it's again just this wishy-washy bullshit that people use to sort of talk about things in a way. And then early 2016, I started to be affected physically by the decline of my own mental health. I was struggling to sleep properly, struggling to eat properly. I'd go to the gym to hit 200 for a set of 2 and fail 180. So all of a sudden, all everything started to unravel when my training started to fall apart as well, because I each— everything, everything tied in, and then it became overwhelmingly real.