Superpowers

Weekend Mental Health Motivation: Life is about choices. We can look at all the things that we think are holding us back or we can look at them and go where are these issues able to help, propel, impower and lift you up. I used to feel like I was cursed with these issues but now I feel like God blessed me with them.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to Unbreakable, a mental health podcast with Jay Glazer.
I'm Jay Glazer. Today is weekend motivation, But first a
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weekend motivation, and today I want to talk about using

(00:42):
our mental health issues as our superpowers. What superpowers, they're
supposed to be, the things that hold us back, that's
what we go about life. But no, I now use
all my mental health issues as my superpowers. I've talked
about using our scars to lift us up and give
us our currency in life. But what I've gone and
I've done now, I've looked at all of my mental

(01:05):
health issues, and I flipped the script on it. And
I've said where they've served me, not where have they
held me back? So, for example, my depression, my depression
because I never felt worthy of being loved, or worthy
of being selected for great things, or worthy of let's saying,
attaining or achieving certain things. I was lo care with

(01:27):
getting rejected. Well you know what got me where I
am today. Eleven years of rejection. That's what got me
to where I am in my career. And what I
mean by that is my first eleven years, I was
making nine four hundred and fifty bucks a year a
year living in New York City. Think about that. And
I was covering at first of the Giants, then the
Giants and the Jets and the whole NFL. And at

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the same time I was covering football, I was trying
to get a full time job, and every single week, man,
I was turned down. I was rejected left and right,
over and over and over. But because of this depress
I was okay with being rejected. Well, I say, okay, Look,
I didn't want to be rejected. It sucked to be rejected,
but I was able to handle it. I was able

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to deal with it, I was able to fight for
eleven years. It put me in this headspace and what
has got me again to where I am is that
over time, I was like, I'll be the last dude's standing. Eventually,
they can't keep saying no to me, they can't keep
rejecting me and other people, They're going to start falling

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out of the picture. I'll be the last dude's standing.
So my depression was my superpower in that my anxiety.
I'm great and chaos because of anxiety. I suck in calm,
but this anxiety as a result, when I'm on TV,
I gotta have a million things happening. I'm read to
rock and roll, like you know I am having. I

(02:51):
told you these panic and anxiety attacks while I'm on
TV as I'm breaking news, as people are texting me
as hey, it's actually served me. I'm finding a cage
when people throwing elbows and kicks in my head. No
problem in normal situations. I'm not great, But as a
result of this anxiety, I kid live in this fight

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and I'm able to fight back in life as if
I didn't a lot better than as if I didn't
have this anxiety. My tension deficit disorder that allows me
to do six things at once. I've been an NFL insider,
I've brought a gym, and the nonprofit. I have several
different charities and ballers are all these different things. I
have a million things going on at once. If I

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did not have ADHD, I wouldn't be able to do it.
That's my superpower. Now can I sit there in a
classroom and learn for three hours? No, it's okay. I
am great with the fact that my add allows me
to do other things than sit and listen to a
three hour lecture. So this is where my mental health

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issues we're again. We used to look at it. I
used to look at it. You know you're embarrassed through
shame you don't want to share with people. Now I
look at it. Where is it led to my success?
Where is it led to better and greater things happening
in my life? You have that same choice. Life is
about our choices. We could look at all the things

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that we figu are holding us back, or we could
look at it and go, where are these issues able
to help me and propel me and empower me and
lift me up. I used to always feel that I
was cursed with these issues. Now I feel like God
blessed me with these issues. Let's keep walking this walk together.