Bobhaze
Staff member
- Messages
- 16,538
- Reaction score
- 63,403
Of all the Cowboys players this year, the guy I’m most pulling for is Randy Gregory. No matter what happens for him this season, I’m already super proud of him. Randy Gregory is a man I admire regardless of his football skills and accomplishments.
When RG was drafted back in 2015, he was a first round talent with major personal issues. Specifically, the mental health challenge known as Bipolar disorder. I don’t know how many NFL players struggle with Bipolar disorder, but the odds of making an NFL career for those who do have this difficult disorder have to be very low.
Most bipolar sufferers struggle with two big things: 1. Admitting and accepting they have it and 2. Will they seek healthy ways to treat it? Almost all bipolar sufferers seek some kind of medication. Legal or not. Some are fortunate enough to find legal medications administered by medical professionals that can balance the brain chemistry that throws them alternately from either a deep depression or an over-excited mania. It can be exhausting. Some use alcohol, marijuana or other substances to help them cope. Gregory used weed because it helped him deal with the highs and lows. And was punished by NFL policy for it.
How do I know all this? Because my wife and I have beautiful daughter in her 30s who is bipolar. We have seen the painful effects bipolar disorder has had on her life for nearly two decades.
I don’t need to go into details. She has an amazing story of incredible struggles, legal problems and even hospitalization. But I am happy to report that our daughter has accepted she has this problem and has been taking effective medications from her doctors that have allowed her to regain her footing again in her life. After nearly a decade of difficulties, she is nearing completion of her bachelor’s degree. She is in a healthy relationship. We are proud of her courage and progress.
Like all Cowboys fans, I’m excited at the reports that RG is having a great camp and has been selected by his teammates to serve on the team’s leadership council. After 5 seasons of struggles like most of us will never understand, Randy Gregory is a hero for just having the courage to fight through all he has faced. If you get a chance to hear him being interviewed as I have, you will be impressed at the quality human being he is. He has worked so hard, against all odds to be where he is now.
Whatever Randy Gregory accomplishes this year on the field will not be as brave as the journey he has traveled to get to today. In my book, #94 has already accomplished more than most of us will ever understand.
Go Randy Gregory! Let’s go Cowboys!
When RG was drafted back in 2015, he was a first round talent with major personal issues. Specifically, the mental health challenge known as Bipolar disorder. I don’t know how many NFL players struggle with Bipolar disorder, but the odds of making an NFL career for those who do have this difficult disorder have to be very low.
Most bipolar sufferers struggle with two big things: 1. Admitting and accepting they have it and 2. Will they seek healthy ways to treat it? Almost all bipolar sufferers seek some kind of medication. Legal or not. Some are fortunate enough to find legal medications administered by medical professionals that can balance the brain chemistry that throws them alternately from either a deep depression or an over-excited mania. It can be exhausting. Some use alcohol, marijuana or other substances to help them cope. Gregory used weed because it helped him deal with the highs and lows. And was punished by NFL policy for it.
How do I know all this? Because my wife and I have beautiful daughter in her 30s who is bipolar. We have seen the painful effects bipolar disorder has had on her life for nearly two decades.
I don’t need to go into details. She has an amazing story of incredible struggles, legal problems and even hospitalization. But I am happy to report that our daughter has accepted she has this problem and has been taking effective medications from her doctors that have allowed her to regain her footing again in her life. After nearly a decade of difficulties, she is nearing completion of her bachelor’s degree. She is in a healthy relationship. We are proud of her courage and progress.
Like all Cowboys fans, I’m excited at the reports that RG is having a great camp and has been selected by his teammates to serve on the team’s leadership council. After 5 seasons of struggles like most of us will never understand, Randy Gregory is a hero for just having the courage to fight through all he has faced. If you get a chance to hear him being interviewed as I have, you will be impressed at the quality human being he is. He has worked so hard, against all odds to be where he is now.
Whatever Randy Gregory accomplishes this year on the field will not be as brave as the journey he has traveled to get to today. In my book, #94 has already accomplished more than most of us will ever understand.
Go Randy Gregory! Let’s go Cowboys!
GO GET'M RG94...GO GET'M
