Dorian Yates
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And also, you know, post-career, I talk about my experiences then and depression and so on.
This can affect anybody and actually affects a lot of athletes from that extreme.
You're in the extreme tunnel, stress, goals, and then it's suddenly gone.
So you don't have this goal that was like, in a way, giving you a lot of dopamine.
You can go to the gym, but there's no...
There's no purpose now, really.
Yeah, they don't have that thing now.
Well, that's the question.
Who am I?
That was the question.
Who am I now?
What am I going to do with life?
What am I supposed to do?
I was only 35.
You know, and I've retired.
It's like, you know, when a guy retires at 60, even if he's just been working in a bank or whatever, it's very often that they get depressed because they're going to work every day and they don't have this, you know, it's not a mission, but they don't have this routine anymore.
They don't know what they're supposed to do with their time.
Imagine the intensity of an athlete and then that's not there anymore.
So it took me time to change the mindset from, oh, look what I've lost.
And I don't know who I am anymore because I was the king and now I'm not or whatever.