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take it away guys. Hey guys so this episode is going to be a bit different today and most of the time we are very very joky just very fun a little serious but not too much feel this one's going to be a little more serious we're going to talk about a topic of mental health

how to deal with it how we deal with it we have a special guest doctor jada coming on to talk to us a little later about this so we have an actual professional because as we stated many times we are not that but thank you guys for being here I am Xavier Woods aka Austin Creed and I am cofee Kingston and I am biggie and yeah I just just kind of speak to why we decided to do this I

did not know Daphne I'm not sure if the two of you had but obviously I grew up a big WCW fan and watched her as a kid was entertained by her and her passing hit hard even though I didn't know her she's a member of our community you know I

whether you work in WWE or not you know I feel a certain kinship with anyone who decides to take up professional wrestling and you know to apply their trade and we're all a part of this and you know her passing even though I had never met her seeing the amount of love the

outpouring of love from people who did know her was clear that she was special to a lot of people that she meant a lot to a lot of people and knowing that she was in so much pain before she left this earth was something that really shook me and I think we all just felt like it was

appropriate to have a conversation about mental health about some of the things that we've dealt with about some of our struggles just to have a discussion and hopefully this is helpful for people you know we're sorry that this isn't

though the fun frivolous episode but this felt very important for us and something that I think we all were very much on board with as far as just being open about

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I guess on the first things that we can jump into is do either you feel comfortable talking about any any hard times that you may have had in life because I feel like there's this this idea like oh you know you're part of WWE you're this larger than life personality this wrestler on TV like nothing can ever shake you there's there's no problems in your life like everything's all good

but that's that's definitely not the case so if either of you if you become for bowl talking about anything that you may have dealt with because I think one of the hardest things to do is be open and I don't know maybe us being a little more open might help somebody else deal more open with their friends and people you know

no of course and I think you know you guys have known me for a long time now and we've had discussions to and met one of those is to that love you guys as well is because our relationship in our bond goes so much further than just work and we're able to talk about life we're able to talk about what we've gone through

but for me mental health is really just wildly important because I feel like it's such a big part of my journey of who I am and you know for I know I have friends who really struggle with anxiety for me my real struggle was depression and it's been a essentially a lifelong struggle in many ways

and I've been extremely blessed the last several years to have found the tools that I needed to grow I've been blessed to find meditation or whatnot but I think back to some of my very first memories I think back to I remember vividly being nine years old and looking in the mirror and having this very profound total feeling that I hated who I was

and I wanted to be anyone but me and just this real feeling of self-loathing that kind of carried with me throughout most of my life into like my teenage years into my college years I just I think the way I was raised just the way I learned about the world my idea of masculinity and what it meant to be a man meant to you

you bottled up your problems you didn't speak about them you certainly didn't cry in public you shouldn't really cry at all I just learned from a very early age to keep these things to myself and the result of that was feeling very much alone and feeling that I was broken that something was very wrong with me you know I went through I spoke before many times about being introverted and I still am for the most part but I was not going to be able to do that

especially as a kid I very much kept to myself and very much just handled things on my own or thought I was handling them on my own but really just when I really really hit a wall was at age 19 and that when I was at 19 I was at the University of Iowa playing football I had just come off my second ACL surgery

and I think for me too football was my dream that was the one thing that I had always loved that I had always wanted that made me excited about life

and it felt like my body was betraying me that it was being taken away from me so to have the first ACL tear at 18 to work all the way back to have another one to feel like my dream was slipping away

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