A short excerpt from a YouTube interview where host Mick Hunt asks former boxer Jameel McCline for encouragement for people suffering from depression. The clip opens with an interviewer question and begins McCline’s response, which frames depression as debilitating.
There are people that are in depression, that are in despair and they feel that they can't get out of it. What's some encouragement you would give?
So it's really hard to give encouragement on depression. Depression is absolutely debilitating. It was.
It's.
You can go into a room and not leave that room for 48, 72 hours only to eat and to use the bathroom because of depression. So as soon as you. As soon as I was able to find my way out, like, as soon as I saw, like a bright day on my mind's eye, I would seize on it. I would just run. I would get out of the house. I would call. They call that the manic stage, when I would just call people, hey, what's going on? I got this going on. Hey, I'm looking for this. I got this. I just kept pressing forward. So giving someone advice on how to come out of depression is really hard. I did a lot of mental. A lot of yoga and a lot of psychotherapy with my therapist, to be be completely honest.