Michael Phelps Says He Contemplated Suicide After 2012 Olympics
<i>&quot;Really, after every Olympics I think I fell into a major state of depression,&quot; Phelps said.</i><p>Bruce Springsteen talks a lot about his depression in his memoir and it sounds like this, dropping off a cliff when returning home after tours. It is super helpful that celebrities speak out so people can relate, but I think performers whose lives are so intensively oriented to performances and then abruptly return to home life rhythms have special needs when it comes to mental health and making sense of their lives. Most of us don’t have such extreme highs.