"If I lose you, I don't know what I'm going to do": Michael Phelps's wife is devastated by swimmer's depression | The State
Michael Phelps has struggled with depression for several years, despite his success as an athlete.
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Day by day, Michael Phelps keep going battling her depression, a disease that has afflicted him for several years and in which he has relapsed due to the confinement of the coronavirus; before it, his wife broke the silence and said that he fears losing him, and that that feeling has grown in the wake of the death of Kobe bryant.
“After Vanessa lost Kobe, all I could do was look at Michael and say, ‘Can we help you? Why If I lose you, I don’t know what I’m going to do”, Expressed Nicole phelps in an interview for the newspaper “Today”.
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It should be remembered that when Phelps announced his retirement, after competing in the 2016 Rio Olympics, stated that had suicidal thoughts. “There was a part of me that didn’t want to be alive”, he said in those days. And these types of ideas still resonate in the head of Nicole, who since 2012 has struggled to help her husband, despite the fact that the treatments that the athlete has undergone have not worked.
“I’ve had some scary ups and downs. This disease never goes away. The story has always been the same: “Michael Phelps has had depression, he has overcome it after undergoing treatment, he has collected a fan of Olympic golds in Rio and now everything will be perfect.” I wish it were true. To believe that is to fall into ignorance ”, he said.
“I used to think that I could fix him, be his therapist, whatever he needs. But what I’ve learned is that you can’t take responsibility for how he feels, no matter how much you love him.“He added.
Nicole stressed that her family has always been there to support the multi-champion, although sometimes the remedy is not in their hands, being that her children are the ones who sometimes get the worst of it when trying to live with their father.
“Guys want to be around Michael when he’s having a rough day. They want to try to make him happy especially Boomer because he’s the oldest. So we say, “Hey Booms, Dad is having a hard time and he just needs to take a moment to be alone.” We want Boomer to understand that it’s not about him, it’s about Michael“, He concluded.
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