Despite UFC Success, Sean Strickland Reveals He’s Still 'Mentally Unwell'

[Blanqa Blanqua]

Yep. The money is in the long game.

So… better to stay a bit insane then

 

[IDGETKTFO]

So… better to stay a bit insane then

Seems to work for most UFC fighters.

 

[El Fernas]

Shocking...

 

[StonedLemur]

I would lose my got damn mind if Sean fought Ian Gary and walked out to this

@helax @Jackonfire @StonedLemur @Kryptt @Siver! @Neck&Neck @Poirierfan

I sang that in a jail cell for 8 hours straight lmao

 

[Spath]

Yeah, the old adage "money doesn't buy happiness" isn't just for show. People gotta stop thinking that fame and money will just magically make everything better.

Also… ”Wherever you go, there you are”

You can’t escape yourself, your problems, thoughts and feelings. Now that… that’s some scary shit!

 

[icemun]

Doesn't he own a stockpile of guns? Seems like he's red flagging, Dana step-in seems like he's crying for help?

wait bipolar people are allowed to have guns???

 

[Blanqa Blanqua]

Seems to work for most UFC fighters.

 

[ChessJitsu]

isn't it shown that people who become massively successful (from rags to riches) are likely to be depressed after achieving their dreams?

it's why mindfulness practice and living for others is important at every stage of life (the money might not make you happy but at least you can use it to take care of your family).

 

[Native7]

Homeboy needs to go to Thailand & disconnect from America.

Get his mind right - Then come back

 

[Takes_Two_To_Tango]

He seems to kinda have a bi-polar thing going on.

I think so, I feel like he gets manic highs and lows.

That make sense in why he behaves the way he does.

 

[Reach Finesse]

It seems like a shtick to me

 

[NMcCauley]

Who could have known...

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Didn’t some other guy make a thread on this already today

So… better to stay a bit insane then

Shocking...

I think so, I feel like he gets manic highs and lows.

That make sense in why he behaves the way he does.

It seems like a shtick to me

Who could have known...

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

"You are an infection. You are the definition of weakness. Everything that is wrong with the world is because of you."

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Why not 5 minutes alone ? To me that would be the perfect walkout song if your going with Pantera

BANGER

 

[mixmastermo]

I believe the average person has no idea about what mental health problems really entail.
Even when people get help they still have to deal with the issues, and that's just a fact in these stories and stories like them.

People in general don't like to face that fact because they want to distance themselves from it.
When a friend of mine had me go spend a few weeks at his job at the psychiatric hospital to see if I wanted to be a peer counselor be ause he thought Id be good at it.

I found that I am good at it, and I also seen the strain on their faces as they tried to face the problems head on.
I seen people that were diagnosed when they were kids, and 30 years later they were still struggling with it.

Families shattered, broken hearts and minds...it was too much for me sir.

Just my 2 cents on the subject.

Thanks for sharing this- my 2 cents on the subject:

I have been around people with serious mental health issues in my life. I have noticed they have something in common (referring to the people I have been around- keep this in mind)

They have some level of awareness they have some kind of "handicap". On occasions where they have done something wrong where someone who was somewhat normal would not have made that kind of mistake, they will dance around the subject, or fly off the handle, or start blaming other people, deflecting, etc. Often it's a combination of things, but ultimately it is both hard for them to admit guilt to others and acknowledge to themselves they should have acted differently. This is actually very painful for them. Which brings me to this post.

Fuck him, I have no sympathy for him, he is a bully, an attention whore and a cry baby.

I just hope he doesn't hurt anybody.

I won't make excuses for his behavior, but this fits right in with what I just described. The guy walks around with his deflector shields on and he goes and picks on others that seem weird to him so people won't pay attention to how weird he actually is.

It is sad, and you wish the best for these kinds of people, but ultimately having them in your life can be extremely exhausting. I have had to cut people out of my life because after years of friendship and tolerating their erratic behavior, at one point they crossed a line and there was no going back after that.

 

[A Very Serious Cat]

Well that's how depression works, it's often an illogical feeling of feeling like shit. Everything can be going well in life but you still feel like shit

 

[Oscar Madison]

Sean is unfiltered -- he says stuff out loud.

 

[TheTickG]

While Sean Strickland has emerged as a success story in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, he is still haunted by his personal demons.


The former UFC middleweight champion shared his struggles with mental health in a video on his Instagram account Monday night. According to Strickland, he has “everything I could ever want,” but that still isn’t a cure for what ails him.

Strickland’s full video statement is as follows:


“Man, all week I’ve been f—-d up, dude. I’ve been on the Twitter saying crazy s—t, just just f—-ing spiraling. I woke up and I told my girl, I was like, ‘Babe, I feel like a danger to people. I don’t feel like I should be out in the world.’ And I think that, you know, I have everything: I’m rich, I’m famous. Like, I have everything I’ve ever f—-ing wanted, and I still am mentally unwell. And I get in these like, mindsets, to where like, I want to burn everything down in the world. Like, I want to have nothing so I could just f—ing lose it and just take out everything on people. And I think that, like, you guys in a weird way are like my family.

“I’ve shared some s—t with you guys and you guys have shared some s—t with me that like, I feel more connected with my fans than I think most people feel, just because we’ve gone through a lot together. And man, you know I have everything I want, dude, and I still struggle with mental health. And my memory is so short that like, when I’ve gone through this week, like once I get past it, I think to myself, ‘Oh man, that was a really rough time in my life.’ But then when I really think about it, this happens multiple times a month, every month.

“And again, I don’t even know why I’m telling you guys this. I’ve just been kind of going through some s—t. I’m fine, I’ll be fine. I’m going to go train right now and try to hurt all my friends and all the demons will go away. I just want you guys know that I have everything I could ever want in the world and I still struggle, so whatever you guys are going through, man, I hope you all feel better. Go to the gym, train. F—-ing wish you all the best.”

Strickland is well known for his controversial takes on a variety of topics, and his recent success — most notably an upset of Israel Adesanya to claim middleweight gold at UFC 293 — has given him a larger platform to voice his opinions. In this instance, Strickland opened up to his fans and followers.

“I'm always fighting the demons, sometimes I win, sometimes I lose,” Strickland wrote in the caption to his video. “I lost last week. Anyways I understand a lot of my fans are very similar to me.. Just wanted to share this and remind you you're not alone.”

Despite UFC Success, Sean Strickland Reveals He’s Still 'Mentally Unwell'

While Sean Strickland has emerged as a success story in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, he is still haunted by his personal demons.

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He's revealed that he's mentally unwell with every comment and tweet he's made.

 

[Dana's Conscience]

"Despite UFC success"

Lol at the idea that money/fame/success will have any sort of positive impact on mental health