New York Mets’ R.A. Dickey unveils his childhood abuse story - MLB Update
R.A. Dickey exhausts his emotions as he reveals something he kept hiding for many years. Agony of being sexually abused at the age of eight he says haunted him every time he remembered it.
While he never found courage to express the truth out of fear of sheer humiliation he anticipated, he finally utters the story.
As this year saw many such reports unfolding and players coming up with their troubling stories, these in the process motivated Dickey to have his own story told out as well.
Part of a reason why he took the plunge as he hopes is to alleviate pain people endure and to let the world know what actually befalls on a sexually abused child. Since, he maintains, most people conceal in an attempt to eschew humiliation, authorities never
get an exact picture of what goes on in the society on a daily basis.
The book in which he chronicled entire details is titled “Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest for Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball”. Excerpts of the book were published in the Daily News.
He elaborates that as years went by and those horrific childhood moments kept taking a round on his mind, his hatred with himself peaked. That period of self-degradation culminated in his eventual plan for suicide in 2005.
Crediting his wife for helping him through his years of depression, he now repents as to why he fancied suicide in 2005 and curses himself as to how immensely he will have hurt his wife by this.
“I betrayed my wife and there are not words that can adequately convey the guilt I felt for hurting the person who has given me so much love, who I share my life with,” said Dickey.
He was so conscious that he even kept his wife in the darkness.
He cites his wife and four children whom he loves so passionately as the biggest reason of why he is alive.
As an only active knuckleballer in MLB, the New York Mets expect a lot from him this regular season. Since anxiety over his mind is not there anymore, Mets will hope he turns out better as a result.
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