Thierry Henry has made one of the most shocking confessions of his entire career, after admitting that he suffered from deep depression during his time as a player. The former F.C. forward Barcelona, 46, is considered one of the best players of all time, but his success ended up taking its toll on him, as he did not know how to cope with the pressure he received at the professional level and from his family. he.
Henry has confessed on the Diary of a CEO podcast about the difficulties he suffered in his life, especially with his father, who was very demanding of him and criticized everything he did. For the former player, he probably suffered from mental health problems since he was born. "Throughout my career and since I was born, I must have been depressed," he confessed.
"Did I know it? No. Did I do anything about it? No. But I adapted in a way," he confessed, explaining that he is still working to recover. "It doesn't mean I'm walking straight, but I'm walking. You have to put one foot in front of the other, and walk. That's what I've been told since I was young."
Even though he knew the theory, he rarely practiced and did anything about it. "I never stopped walking, maybe then I would have realized it," he admits. However, during the pandemic, he stopped "walking" when he reached a point of no return.
According to Henry, there came a time when, after retiring in 2014, he didn't really know how to move forward with all that burden. A few years later, with the pandemic and without being able to see his children due to confinement, he realized that it was being more difficult than he supposed, reaching the point of "crying every day for no reason."
"The tears came alone. Why, I don't know, but maybe they were there for a long time. Technically, it wasn't me," he explains, adding that it was possibly his younger self, who was crying at that moment "for everything." which did not obtain: approval".
An approval that he always desperately asked for from his father, who was never granted. Now, as an adult and he as a father, he recognizes that he helped the "athlete" Thierry, but "he didn't help the human being that much."
Since then, he has worked towards his recovery. The former World Champion with the French National Team was confined to Belgium during confinement, but upon his return to France in 2021, he decided to stay at home, with his family.
"I said, 'What am I doing? Are you going to get into a situation again just because you want to please people?'" he asked himself, seeing that his family loved him as a human being, not as the famous soccer player he once loved. time it was. "They love Thierry, not Thierry Henry. I stayed, for the first time I felt human... and I felt good."
