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Matt Erickson and MMA Junkie Radio

UFC 304’s Nathaniel Wood proud to embrace anti-anxiety help to stay out of dark places

Nathaniel Wood has been open about how his mental health struggles have impacted his career.

Now he’s just as open about how anti-anxiety medication has helped him keep from going to what he called a “dark place,” and he hopes that message might help other people, too.

“I have suffered with OCD and anxiety for as long as I can remember,” Wood told MMA Junkie Radio. “I know I had it when I was a child, but I didn’t know it at the time. I’ve been on my medication now for, on and off, probably nine years. There was one time where I would be on and off, and your dark cloud days come.

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