None of us are perfect brother. I’m glad you’ve sought help, I think I speak for the whole gym, we’re here for you!

Anyone who has an opinion that’s worth a damn will appreciate a person’s true apology. Every individual is far from perfect and more likely to be imperfect with many faults. It’s takes a strong person, it also shows a lot of character to admit ones own wrongs. I truly look forward to seeing you move forward. Wishing you & your family the best.

Jeff Mead This makes me happy and proud! ... Proud to see a heart felt apology and a plan, and happy to know that my friend is back. The Jeff I've gotten to know this past year, and the Jeff that loved his gym along with the people in it. The Jeff that pushed me to be better, to try harder, and to do it humbly. I can't pretend to know what you felt, or what you and your family must now go through. But I can offer my time, my ear and my empathy. We succeed in life as a team.

You may feels your words are not enough; but your intentions have great value. Im proud of your honesty and so so happy for you that you are getting the help you need. I look forward to seeing u healthy and awesome Jeff uou truly are.

Jeff, you don’t know me. I no longer go to CrossFit but I still have a page like so I saw this comment. I have no business commenting on this but I’m going to regardless. That apology was a genuine apology and one of the best I’ve ever read. You said you’re mentally sick and I’m here to tell you that’s completely bullschit. That’s just a story we tell ourselves. True mental illness is extremely rare. Anyone who writes an apology like that isn’t sick, it means your human. People look up to you, whether you want to hear that or not the fact is it’s true. I’ve heard your name get kicked around frequently and it’s been all good things. Without ever meeting you I even started to respect you based off comments. Look, your fucking human! Did you know that the greatest researchers in psychology have done decades of quality research only to find out that people with Anxiety, BiPolar, blah blah blah all have one thing in common? One thing! We are sensitive. We are caring. We love deeply. We feel deeply. We think deeply. The fact is we have high levels of emotion. So here we sit on this massive rock hurling through space with no instruction manual. And we all know it ends badly for everyone. Time is ticking and no matter how good the things are we do the outcome is the same, we die. Every love story ends in a tragedy. Sensitive people take this all in and man o man that’s a challenging life unless we can wrestle in these feelings. It’s rough being sensitive because that type of personality has high expectations that can’t be solved. You’re not broke Jeff, that’s completely BS. I’m almost 49 and in those years wanna know who my favorite people are? The ones who think they are broke. Those are the best people on earth. They are not broke at all, just sensitive. Sensitive people are the glue that holds society together. Period. Non sensitive people are not fun to talk to, they aren’t even fun to be around. Humans have about 6,000 thoughts a day I read. Some good and some bad. Thoughts create feelings. Never forget that fact, it’s your life saver. Intelligence is knowing which thoughts to keep and which thoughts to toss out. Sensitive people struggle with thoughts, we think they are facts. They are not. They are cognitive distortions. So, whatever it is you said, step one is to not be so dam hard in yourself. Whatever you were thinking had some type of distortion. That’s what it means to be human and I can assure you you are very human. It’s so sad how many people I see in society telling themselves a BS story that’s not true. It’s a BS cooked up narrative that’s all BS. All of it. You’re just a man in a moment in time having a life experience. Stop labeling it because one day you’ll be gone and like a vapor it disappears. I have a small plumbing shop on the corner of Brown Street and Silver Dollar drive across the street from Kwik Trip. If you see both my plumbing truck and a white Toyota Tundra parked that means I’m inside building something cool and you have a standing invitation to come on in any time. I’m a good listener and I’ve experienced quite a shit show in my life. We’ll have a chat and I’ll show you just how normal you are. You’re just sensitive my man, nothing more nothing less. Easily managed and I can show you how. I’ve defied a lot of odds in my life, I’d be happy to share that story to you or anyone because it’s a crazy story. Mike

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