NEOSHO, Wisconsin. – Many professional athletes are larger than life and local professional wrestler Adam Scherr is one of them.
At 6’8 and 350 pounds, she’s brave enough to admit she’s experienced mental health issues like anyone else. Scherr is a big guy with a big heart and currently lives in the Neosho field.
“You see this image that I represent in real life, this outer shell, but I’m an onion,” Scherr said. “I have layers. Everyone. Everyone has layers. I went through a lot of bullying as a kid because I was a fat kid. A small, stocky kid. (I) didn’t understand why and then (I) had a reading disability. when I was younger, so that was something else. We didn’t have a lot of money growing up. My family, we just didn’t have it. So I wore different clothes and, oh, you’re poor and you’re putting on It’s something I think everyone in they have to deal. The unfortunate thing is that bullying is never going to go away. “
Scherr said he’s motivated by people who tell him he can’t do something.
“I had teachers tell me I would never get anywhere when I was in high school,” says Scherr. “My first action figure that I got, I signed it and said to that teacher, thank you for everything. So I had things like that and people, and that was, that is still one of the things that to this day pushes me and It drives me. It’s telling me I can’t do something. Like, oh, da, da, da. There are limitations to whatever it is. I don’t even care if it’s getting into a small car, as is okay, I’ll prove you wrong . “
Scherr said the internet and the experiences she’s had in public affected her mental health.
“There have been times, even in my career when I was with WWE, when things were not going well and I started to have problems because the Internet and social media constantly verbally harass you,” says Scherr. “You are being attacked in every way. You go out to dinner and people harass you when you are here, and I started to develop social anxiety about it.”
But now, Scherr has help on social media to help you.
“We just launched an application called Diskuss,” says Scherr. “It is a mental health app that brings you licensed certified professional therapists, counselors and life coaches in the palm of your hand, 24 hours a day via audio, video and text messaging services. It is fully encrypted, so all your information (is) safe. But, it gives you the capabilities and convenience of doing it in your own home. If people want to talk to someone, we are offering a free 24-hour texting session by using of the promo code ‘let’s talk’. Then let’s discuss It will give you a free opportunity to test the app for 24 hours via text messaging for anyone who wants to try it out if they need to communicate and talk to someone. “
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