Confessing About ‘Fighting Demons’ to His Girlfriend, Sean Strickland Gets “Mental Clarity” After Feeling Like a “Danger to People”

Sean Strickland is one of the most popular fighters in the UFC right now. And fans are a bit concerned since the former middleweight champion has been taking it rough for a little while now. Strickland recently lost the middleweight championship to Dricus Du Plessis and now, he’s got a confession to make.

Everyone knows that Strickland has struggled with mental health issues for a long time. He’s been one of those fighters who are very open about their struggles and that doesn’t stop regardless of the belt. In a recent video, he admitted to having a couple of rough months. Here’s more.

Sean Strickland confesses his “spiraling” situation

Sean Strickland recently took to his Instagram account to share one of his famous car-talk videos. Except this time, it was something more personal and vulnerable. The UFC star bared his soul about having a rough few weeks and then similar months in recent history.

“Man all week, I’ve been, I’ve been f*cked up dude.” He said in the video. “I’ve been, I’ve been on the Twitter saying crazy sh*t just just f*cking spiraling. I woke up and I told my girl, I was like ‘Babe I feel like, feel like I’m a danger to people. Like I don’t feel like I should be out in the world’ you know. . . I’ve been going through some sh*t. I’m fine, I’ll be fine, I’m gonna go train right now, trying to hurt all my friends and all the demons will go away.”

The caption to the post read: “I’m always fighting the demons, sometimes I win, sometimes I lose. I lost last week. . .” In the caption he reminded his fans that they’re not alone too and later on, he posted another one talking about having trained with his teammates and the caption to that video said, “Mental clarity for a little bit lol!!!”

Sean Strickland has clearly been through things and his way of dealing with it is sparring in a cage. However, he has many that care about him including his many friends, MMA professionals, and of course, his loving girlfriend who knows just what to do.

Strickland finds support amid difficult times

As soon as Sean Strickland uploaded the gut-wrenching confession video, comments of support began appearing in the comment section. One of them was from UFC pro Johnny Walker who invited ‘Tarzan’ to take some medicinal support with him to make him feel better.

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He also had the man often touted as the Bare Knuckle king, Mike Perry asking him to try a different approach. Perry urged Strickland to perhaps not spar so much and work only on strength and conditioning for a while. This, of course, is because Strickland is infamous for sparring every single day and not doing more of the other two.

His girlfriend took it upon herself to make him happy after the video. Strickland shared a story where a gift wrapped up all nice can be seen. A gift from her to make him feel a bit better. Isn’t that just great?

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