Bear Grylls Needed Therapy When ‘Life Hit Him Hard’
By Claire
4 years ago
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"Yes I have. I saw a therapist for a while, but it was nothing to do with the army. It was just life hitting me hard.
Shara and I married in 2000. I didn't really have a job - and that was a worry - and then her father died. Twelve weeks later my father died. We were living on this rusty barge on the Thames and the boiler was broken. I really felt overwhelmed. I couldn't talk to Shara because I felt I had to be strong for her.
My feeling was, 'Bear, you've been very lucky through childhood, but now life has taken the gloves off. You've got no job, your wife is in a bad way, you're in a bad way, what are you going to do?' "
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"I went to see this very good therapist and it really helped. For a young couple a shared crisis can really make or break you. It certainly made us. And whatever you see on TV, no man doesn't have doubts or fears. No man ever has everything totally sorted."
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"Sometimes Shara and I look on Instagram and see famous people on Necker [Island] or sipping cocktails in the sun by an azure sea. Here we are often trapped by wind and rain or sea conditions. But we still turn to each other and say, 'I love it here.' "