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Mental Health is Real, Just Like Physical Health | A.J. Brown Player Interview | Tennessee Titans | YouTubeToText
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hi everyone i just uh started off by
saying um i'm sure everyone have saw the
video i posted on friday um
um to be honest i posted the video um
that was a a dark time in my my life
that nobody really know
but i posted it because i wanted to
encourage others to seek help whenever
they are
they're down
i didn't know
really really didn't take in
consideration what depression really was
i always just brushed it off that's how
i grew i grew up
i just brushed off my feelings and uh
and uh it got the best of me you know
and i just wanted to
put out a positive message that uh that
i'm still here i'm still i'm still
growing i'm still learning i'm blessed i
got a lot of things to be grateful for
and uh someone was there for me so um
reach out to your loved ones and ask
them how they're doing and listen to
them you know because it's important you
know so yeah
yeah
widely positive were you were you
pleased by that
uh yeah a lot of guys a lot of guys
reached out to me um
told me what i did was powerful um
um
a lot of guys on my team um
sat down and talked to me one-on-one
about their struggles which
which we need to do more often you know
we need to need to look out for one
another you know i know we play this
beautiful game but you know life is
beautiful too
thanks for putting out so message second
of all um
um sorry
sorry
it's okay
um just what made you kind of come out and
and
want to talk about that i'm so sorry
you're fine you're fine it's okay uh
like i said it was a a dark moment and
it was a year ago uh
where i had thought about
you know taking my life you know um
and it was it was special to me because
um it just came with my heart that i
wanted to share with others and help
others as much as i can like i said i'm
here i'm so much to be grateful for i'm blessed
blessed
i know i wake up every day and get to
play the game that i love but you know i
have loved ones around me that love me
dearly you know and i just wanted to
help someone hopefully i could save a
life or anything so
personal understand if it's too personal
but what prompted you to feel that way
um i won't get into all that you know
that's that's between me but uh yeah
yeah
you talked about was there for you was
it teammate was a family member maybe
um he was a elijah moore uh
yeah it was elijah moore that's
he's he's more than family he's more
than family um i love him like he's my
brother and he is my my brother but
um he's a special special person and
i appreciate him each and every day
for somebody in your position
like you said to come out and speak out
about it because a lot of people from
the outside will say you know you're an
nfl football player pro bowler you make
a lot of money you know you have a lot
of notoriety what could you possibly be
down about right yeah um life happens to
everyone you know i'm human just like
everyone else just because i i play this
beautiful game just doesn't mean life is
not going to happen to me too
so like i'm grateful for the person that
was there for me and
and
i just wanted to encourage everyone to
seek help if you're down and you're
depressed and just try to get help good
example aj though of like john was
saying you
on the outside
you know everything looks like it's it's
great for aj but
people just don't know right what's
going on inside somebody yeah most
definitely man some uh i know for me um
walking around with a smile that's easy
to put on everybody can do it you know
but you know we go on we some of us have
real life problems
you know um so
just how you deal with those things and
that's why i said just talk to someone
reach out you know us as men you know to
be honest our feelings are aren't too
much cared about you know so
um especially men just
you know get things off your chest you
know um it's okay to talk to talk to
someone seek help you're not too tough
to talk to someone you know so
to have a coach like mike rabel who
makes those emotional deposits with you
guys you know and is open to
conversation into things like this um
it means a lot it means a lot uh
i appreciate uh coach braid
i i just try not to
i try not to um
you know sometimes i know it's a
business and sometimes you don't want to get
get
emotionally attached or tied with
someone you know because it's a it's a
business side of it but
man i appreciate him so much um
and and people like that i think no
matter how this business may go i think um
um
forever i'll be a friend of his and
he'll be a friend of mine you know um
but i appreciate him so much from just
opening his door just listening trying
to help me as much as i can
it doesn't go unnoticed with me so uh
he's definitely family in my book
regardless of we have a part ways down
the line i wish i hope not but you know
but i appreciate him so much you still
confront that that darkness from time to
time or you've been been pretty good for
the last year no i'm i'm in a better
place mentally
that was that's behind me
that's behind me now i know how to
deal with certain things if something
comes up in my life now
like i said growing up i just kind of
brushed off my feelings and you know i
buried them
and uh you know you don't need to do
that you know you need to get things off
your chest and talk to someone you know
uh elijah moore was the one who had kind
of helped you in that particularly uh
dark moment i guess what is
kind of made you guys so close beyond
the fact that you guys were teammates at
ole miss why is he kind of like more
than a
like a brother to you um
um i live with him
he's seen my struggles i've seen his struggles
struggles
you know i know what he wants to
accomplish he knows what i want to
accomplish you know in life period you
know this is this is not just football
talk it's life talk you know so uh
just being around them so much
you know uh
to a point where i feel like i kind of
kind of raised them and as at the point
you know in college you know i've seen
them grow seeing them do all the things
you want to do and um
just being there for one another you
know so
you think you did you maybe
think about posting that video and maybe
what was that kind of got you the point
could be maybe brave enough to do it uh
i thought long long and hard about
posting the video uh
it was on my phone for a while
i actually recorded that video earlier
that day
but i didn't post until later that night
so um it was it was an all-day process
and i was kind of nervous to to post it
but you know something gave me the
courage some came over me to
just do it
i know you've been very
open about your relationship with your
little girl on social media and how much
she's meant to you how how much has she
been in your life how much does she kind
of push you to kind of keep going and to
be strong for her
it's the reason why i'm still going today
today um
i don't even have the words for it i
don't know she she gives me strength
she's who i play for
without without my little my little girl
i don't know where i'd be
so was was it a year exactly uh i'm
trying to remember to to the date that
you know that you thought about
you know as you said you had
contemplated you know taking your life
was that yes it was uh november 12. okay
did you i mean and again whatever's
private is private but i mean did you
feel like you would you were you're
right there on the edge or or um
i won't get too much into detail about
it but uh
but
how important is it your message and you
coming out to try and fight that
negative stigma that surrounds mental
health right uh
i just wanted to come out and just try
to just
put that to rest you know uh mental
health is real
just like
physical health you take care of your
body when you're sick just like when
something's going on with you you need
to get stuff off your chest you need to
talk to someone seek professional help
if it needs so
but uh you got to take care of your
brain just like you take care of your
body too you know so find ways to
a safe safe place for you um do the
things you love
you know so
enjoy every moment
in addition to elijah did you talk to a
professional to get further help yes i
did i i did out there i still do to this
day so
how much of uh
football-wise how much of of what's gone
out for you the last two weeks was about
the ramsey and the lattimore match-ups
do you think
uh what about it in that
your production
um you know i i i try to control what i
can control you know i can't uh throw
myself the ball or anything like that
whatever i can do is i can just get open
you know and if i if i have to clear it
out for someone else like marcus had a
big day this past sunday i'll do it again
again
you know so uh it's it's all about
trying to get to nine and two you know
one week at a time that's the only thing
i care about you know uh that's the
seeing
differences in defense the last couple
weeks you know with with derek being out
a.j have you seen that much more um not
these two past weeks
because uh they had jaylen ramsey and
lattimore you know those guys matched up
on me so um
but you definitely know i get a lot more
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