{"id":458044,"date":"2022-09-12T08:06:52","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=458044"},"modified":"2022-09-12T08:06:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T15:06:52","slug":"paddy-pimblett-opens-up-about-his-own-fight-with-depression-i-was-crying-for-like-an-hour-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/paddy-pimblett-opens-up-about-his-own-fight-with-depression-i-was-crying-for-like-an-hour-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddy Pimblett opens up about his own fight with depression: “I was crying for like an hour every day”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paddy Pimblett shone a spotlight on mental health following his last win at UFC London in July, calling on those<\/a> having trouble with loneliness or depression to reach out and talk to their friends and family about it. That speech was inspired by the loss of one of his close friends<\/a> in the lead-up to his fight, but Pimblett has also grappled with his own mental health over the years.<\/p>\n

In a new video on his YouTube channel, Pimblett took an afternoon to train and talk with marines at Camp Pendleton in Oceanside, California. During a Q&A, Pimblett opened up about how dark things had gotten for him in the past and how his support network helped save him.<\/p>\n

“My friends, my family, my teammates, my fianc\u00e9, all the people closest to me,” Paddy said. “I’ve said it plenty of times, without them I don’t even know if I’d still be here now. I have had some dark times myself, lad, and I have questioned a lot of things in my own head, do I do this or that, I mightn’t be here if it wasn’t for all those people close to me.”<\/p>\n

Asked how a person suffering from mental health issues can help themselves, ‘The Baddy’ expanded on his advice of reaching out to your friends.<\/p>\n

“You know the saying ‘Get it off your chest?’ It’s real,” Pimblett said. “At the end of 2018, I got in a proper bad place, lad. Proper bad place. Was just waking up and crying every morning. The missus would get up and go to work and I’d just roll over and go to sleep. I was rolling over and just crying for like an hour. Every day. So I had to get over that, and to get through it, I had to speak to people.”<\/p>\n