Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is now revealing a secret battle with depression that everyone doesn't know about already. Radar Online shared what he had to say in a recent interview with Oprah, where Dwayne revealed all. Now Dwayne Johnson is revealing that for a large part of his life, he dealt with depression and even felt hopeless and alone. Dwayne is now speaking out about his battle and wants to let everyone who deal with this know that it will be okay. Depression is hard to deal with, but Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson is a survivor. I found that with depression one of the most important things you could realize is that you're not alone. You're not the first to go through it, you're not going to be the last to go through it and oftentimes you …show more content…
feel like you're alone and you feel like it's only you and you're in your bubble. I wish I had someone at that time who could just pull me aside and [say], 'Hey, it's going to be okay.' At the young age of 23, Dwayne Johnson was rejected by the NFL and then cut by the Canadian Football League.
This is part of what made him start to feel depressed and things were not going as planned for him. Johnson did get a call to play football, but Johnson turned it down and decided to be a pro-wrestler instead just like his dad did. Johnson's dad was a a wrestler himself. Johnson's dad didn't think that this was a good idea at all though. "The Rock" remembers what his dad said to him at the time. He said, ‘You are throwing it all away. It is the worst mistake you will ever make. You’re ruining your career,'I said, ‘Maybe I’ll be no good, but I feel like, in my heart, I have to do this. Now years later Dwayne Johnson is doing great and is very happy with his life. Johnson has found a way to overcome his depression. He wants everyone to know that they can do it too and shared details. You’ve just got to remember, hold on to that fundamental quality of faith, have faith, and on the other side of your pain is something good. ABC News shared that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson actually saved his mother's life at the young age of just 15. His parents got into a fight and then they pulled over. He was in another car behind them and saw his father pull over and his mom got out and started to walk. Dwayne Johnson shared about it
all She had a glazed look over her eyes that I had never seen before. And she walks right into the middle of I-65 and continues to walk down into incoming traffic. And my heart stopped. Horns were blowing and cars were swerving out of the way. Johnson then got out of the car he was in and grabbed his mother, getting her off the road and saving her life. His mother actually doesn't remember it happening or anything about it. Dwayne Johnson will be sharing all tonight on "Oprah's Master Class" and this is one episode that you do not want to miss. Johnson is going to talk about things you have never heard before, including his battle with depression. This will air on Sunday November 15 at 8 p.m. EST. Don't miss this chance to get to know things all about Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson that he has never shared before.
To begin with as a child, Johnson was very innovative and curious, he built his own go cart out a lawnmower
In 1972, he had a Passer Rating of 157.5 in a game. A rare perfect rating would be 158.3. In 1973, he had an amazing season where he brought the Broncos to their first ever winning season. That season he earned a First Team All-AFC, led the AFC in touchdown passes, and earned the Broncos offensive MVP. In 1974, he led the NFL in yards per pass attempt with 8.1 yards. In 1975, he played his final season and retired. He became the Broncos quarterback coach for the 1976 season, then retired from that right after. In 1977, the Broncos went to their first super bowl, the year after Charley Johnson retired. He ranks 7th in most touchdowns by a Broncos quarterback, and 9th in most yards. In 1986, Charley Johnson was inducted into the Broncos Ring of Fame.
Johnson was put into office as the 36th president of the United States after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November of 1963, his first task was one close to his heart, which was to alleviate poverty and create what he called a “Great Society” for all Americans. This is where Medicare and the Head Start program came from which led to better healthcare, education, urban renewal, conservation and civil rights. Despite his amazing achievements at home in the US, he was also known very well for his failure to lead the nation out of the devastation of the Vietnam War which was travesty from 1954 to 1975. It was after this that he decided not to run for office again and he quietly retired to his ranch in Texas in January of 1969 (History.com Staff.
Johnson states "You will recoginize the words I'm about to repeat. Free at last, free at last. Thank God almihgty, I'm free at last." Afircan American's was free at last! Johnson put his self in the Afircan American's shoes and was able to stand a stand from their outpoint in life. He looked at everything as if he was one of them and was able to sign the Act and understood what happened. Even though it would help him with the presidental debeat, he believed that it was the right thing to do. Johnson won a Texas seat in the US House of Representatives in 1937, holding the postion for 11 years then moved into a lieutenant commander. He then went on to the first of two six-year terms in the United States Senate quickliy becoming a
No dream is ever for granted and Johnson realized and he chased after his for a very long time. Ever since his childhood, Johnson felt he had a purpose in his life, he was always relentless in anything he did, he had a fighting spirit in him and he started trying his luck at boxing after a famous boxer came to his town and told Johnson he had a lot of promise. Johnson took it to heart and that lead him to his first boxing match.. With his tall and muscular body he became well known in the white world as well as the blacks at a very quick pace . Over a few years Johnsons relentlessness in the ring eventually won him the African Heavy Weight Championship, which was the highest rank an African American could achieve. He believed that he was able to win the World Heavy Weight Championship which was then held by Jim Jefferies. Every challenge Johnson threw was met with closed doors. “African-Americans were considered unworthy to co...
Johnson enrolled in DuSable High School and was an excelling student. Because of his achievements, Johnson was invited in 1936, to speak at a dinner held by the Urban League. Harry Pace, the President of the Supreme Liberty Life Insurance Company, was so impressed with Johnson's speech that he offered him a job and a scholarship to attend college part-time. But his interest focused primarily on the operations at the insurance firm and eventually he dropped his studies at the University of Chicago. In 1939 at the age of 21 he became the editor of Pace's in-house magazine. Collecting articles culled from national publications, Johnson realizes he had struck gold.
...ard work, and perseverance. The list of successful individuals with depression extends on and on and there are probably many more people who had amazing accomplishments who were never diagnosed that displayed symptoms of depression. And as Friedrich Nietzsche, a successful German philosopher diagnosed with depression, once said, “to live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
Depression is a psychological disease. It is one of the most common mental illnesses (Blais, et al., 2013). Depression was known since antiquity. Hippocrates diagnosed it in fourth century BC (McNamara and Horan, 1986). After World War II, depression was described as “aggression turned inward” (McNamara & Horan, 1986). Now there is Hamilton Depression Rating Scale, which is designed to evaluate how severe is depression (Gibbons et al., 2012).
Depression is a mental illness in which a person experiences deep, stable sadness and discontinued interest in nearly all activities. People also use the term depression to describe the temporary sadness, loneliness, or blues that everyone feels from time to time. In contrast to normal sadness, severe depression, also called major depression, can dramatically lessen a person’s ability to function in social situations and at work. People with major depression often have feelings of despair, hopelessness, and worthlessness, as well as thoughts of committing suicide.
“Being depressed is not something that everyone can easily understand. There’s such a stigma that comes along with the term. So many people just see it as some fake, made-up condition that I should just be able to snap out of. What they don’t understand is that it’s not something that I can just will away,” said Katelyn.
The word ‘depression’ has become a common everyday word. We hear the term ‘depression’ so frequently today, it’s even used in the contexts of jokes. For example you may hear someone say ‘My favorite show is over, now I have nothing to watch, I’m so depressed’. Obviously this person is not depressed, but we have come to overuse it in our expressions, to the point that is takes away from the seriousness of this disorder. Major depressive disorder is a mood disorder characterized by at least two weeks of depressed mood or loss of interest in nearly all activities, along with sleep or eating disturbances, loss of energy, and feelings of hopelessness (Kosslyn, Rosenberg, 2006). This mood disorder is characterized by a depressed mood, lack of interest in activities normally enjoyed, and feeling of worthlessness. Over the course of two weeks, someone who is suffering with major depressive disorder can experience symptoms such as significant weight loss, daily insomnia or hypersomnia, loss of energy, diminished ability to think or concentration, and recurrent thoughts of death or suicide (Kosslyn, Rosenberg, 2006).
Every time someone mentions mental illness, many things come to their mind. One of the many mental illnesses known worldwide and one of the most common is mental depression; although it is common not many people know much about it, besides the superficial information. Depression is one of the oldest mental illnesses, dating back to ancient Greece (Fava, M., & Kendler, K.S.) Depression is more than just being upset; it is a major illness everyone should know more about. It has many names such as Depression, Major Depressive Disorder, Clinical Depression, Chronic Depression, etc., that sound similar; because of the different names people assume there are different. There are different types of depression, but they all fall under the same criteria.
Depression is an illness within itself that affects the “whole body”. (Staywell,1998) The body, feelings, thoughts, and behavior are all immensely altered when someone is depressed. It is not a sign of personal weakness, or a condition that can be wished or willed away. For some people depression is just temporary, but for others it can last for weeks, months and even years.
Depression can have a great impact on someone’s life. Imagine trying to balance these symptoms while in school, work, or being a mother or father. Although while suffering from this disorder there are solutions out there
Depression is one of the most common psychological problems. Each year over 17 million Americans experience a period of clinical depression. Thus, depression affects nearly everyone through personal experiences or through depression in a family member or friend.