'After the Olympics, doing Dancing With The Stars kind of opened my eyes that there's a lot more out there'
Jordan Conroy experienced the high of competing in the Tokyo Olympics and in Dancing With The Stars and wasn't equipped for the low that followed.
"I was in a low and during it I was lost, I was in a dark, grey, muggy place. I had the rugby but I wasn't enjoying it and it just took a lot out of me."It was the first time it had happened to me and I was relieved to hear that. The more I talked about it, the more it made it easier to understand. And he has a better understanding of what his former team-mate Greg O'Shea has suffered through in terms of his mental health struggles."He was in the limelight and it just takes so much energy - you're giving and giving and giving and then when you're on your own for a little bit, it's mad how drained you are of energy and no-one gives it back to you," said the Limerick man.
"Talking and letting it out is so much better. That was a learning curve for me. If that was two years ago, I would have kept it in, I would have acted out, I would have been a bad sport and wouldn't have let people know why. I'm glad that has changed."
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