{"id":609450,"date":"2023-02-18T13:49:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T19:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/former-nfl-star-brandon-marshall-gets-radically-honest-about-his-mental-health\/"},"modified":"2023-02-18T13:49:29","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T19:49:29","slug":"former-nfl-star-brandon-marshall-gets-radically-honest-about-his-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/former-nfl-star-brandon-marshall-gets-radically-honest-about-his-mental-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL Star Brandon Marshall Gets Radically Honest About His Mental Health"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brandon Marshall is famous for a lot of things. He\u2019s a six-time pro bowler. His big personality as an on-air analyst for Inside the NFL earned him an Emmy nomination. His work as a co-host on the influential I Am Athlete<\/a> podcast. There was some volatile behavior. And way back before everyone on social media was talking about mental health, Brandon Marshall was out there doing it. <\/p>\n

This week, he spoke with Men\u2019s Health IGL Friday Sessions co-host Gregory Scott Brown, M.D., about not only what it took to be a pioneer in the mental health conversation, but how people can optimize their mental health now. <\/p>\n

Mental health and wellness pros love to talk about how men should be vulnerable in order to have a real conversation that gets them somewhere with mental well-being, and Marshall went there right out of the gate. <\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a thing he does with his team, he said, where he checks in and asks them, on a scale of 1 to 10, \u201cwhere are you at personally, professionally, and mentally?\u201d Marshall followed that right up with \u201cI\u2019m 5s across the board. That\u2019s the lowest I\u2019ve been in three years.\u201d <\/p>\n

Marshall is the founder and CEO of House of Athlete<\/a>, a lifestyle wellness brand with IRL and app platforms. The ebbs and flows of being a founder and CEO of a business creates a lot of different types of pressure than being an athlete did, he says. But he and his brand are about acknowledging those pressures and developing ways to cope with them in ways that help you be successful as a person. <\/p>\n

It was more or less a full decade ago that he saw himself as more than a football player. Friends visiting him noticed he wasn\u2019t going out of his house much except to train and suggested he needed help. He found his way to an outpatient program at McLean Hospital<\/a>, one of the top mental health care facilities. There, he discovered that he wasn\u2019t just a player; he was a person \u201cand I need to work on this the same way I work to get stronger and faster when it comes to Xs and Os,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Dr. Brown pointed out that the diagnosis he received\u2014Borderline Personality Disorder<\/a>, in which regulating emotions can be difficult\u2014can be a hard one for people to process. Marshall processed it like an athlete, saying that when he learned of the diagnosis, he thought, \u201cI know what fight I\u2019m in now and can take my game to another level.\u201d <\/p>\n

You don\u2019t need to be in distress to take steps to make your mental health better. In fact, that\u2019s what his app, House of Athlete Plus<\/a>, is all about. It\u2019s about leaning into the fundamentals he lays out\u2014train, fuel, mental fitness, recover and tribe\u2014to perform at your peak, whether that\u2019s as an athlete, a dad, a teacher, an entrepreneur or anything else. \u201cPerformance for me is unlocking your full potential whoever you are,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

And that can mean knowing where your strengths are working for you and where they\u2019re not. At McLean, he says, he discovered that some of what was making him a great player were \u201cpulling me down off the field.\u201d He\u2019d note discoveries like these in a journal, and left viewers with this entry: <\/p>\n

My pain, sadness gives me my strengths<\/p>\n

My strengths ruin my mind, body and soul<\/p>\n

I have been trapped all my life not by man, or cages, but by my own emotions<\/p>\n

Where I\u2019ve been while traveling inside myself can be summed up by one word: Damn.<\/em> <\/p>\n

Watch the entire discussion below: <\/p>\n

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