Phelps discusses depression and thoughts of suicide

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Today he understands that "it's OK to not be OK" and that mental illness "has a stigma around it and that's something we still deal with every day," said Phelps. "I think people actually finally understand it is real. People are talking about it and I think this is the only way that it can change."

He says he has incorporated stress management into his foundation and his work with the Boys & Girls Club of America

 

[joubertelegant]

He is such a wonderful person and so inspirational! It is amazing to think someone with so much success has had to deal with may of the same fears, anxieties and worries as the rest of us.

 

[joubertelegant]

And how wonderful he had great people in his life like his mother and wife to pull him out of that funk and depression.