Neymar Has Been My Favourite Player Since The Moment I Saw Him On The Pitch Years Ago. I Cried So Hard

Neymar has been my favourite player since the moment I saw him on the pitch years ago. I cried so hard when he left Barcelona.

This video hurts me both as a fan of his and someone in the mental health field (I am studying psychology).

I love and stand for everything @holdmyhopeinyourhands has written on here.

I hope he is dealing with this in a healthy manner, and I hope internet bullies and real life bullies realize their words hurt and they meaning.

Do better.

Be better.

I've rewatched this video so many times. So so many times and it breaks my heart each and every single time. The abuse, the bullying, the witch-hunt, it all reflects starkly in his eyes and it's sickening. To see someone who used to be so full of life laughing dejectedly (his voice breaking) as he says how tired he is and how he no longer has the mental strength to deal with the sport he loves anymore is just so freaking awful I don't even know how to put it into words.

Could you image being cut down, humiliated, slandered and verbally abused so much so that you can't even do what you love anymore?

People forgot a long time ago that Neymar was human. Hypocrites who preach about mental health and awareness forgot a long time ago that their attacks were landing and their words wounding.

I'm furious. I'm angry. I'm disappointed and so very worried about him. But more than anything I'm just sad. No one deserves this. No one deserves the amount of abuse he's dealt with. For years. For so many years and I always admired him for that strength. The resilience to carry on despite of it. The ability to pick himself back up no matter how much the media and the football community tried to kick him down.... but I guess eventually a time comes when even the must resilient breaks down. And this is the aftermath of that. This is the result of years of torment.

And I want everyone that played a part in it to know. Every single person that preached about mental health in one breath and abused the hell out of Neymar in their next, this is your doing. This is on you, remember that.

And I hope he seeks help and doesn't let this fester. Actually, I hope he's already going through therapy and dealing with all this in a healthy manner. I hope that his family, his friends and his teammates are there for him because he'll need them. And finally, I hope he does what's best for him. I loved and still love watching him play. It's beautiful and captivating and brilliant and I have loved every second of it. But if he has to hang up the boots even with psg for his own mental wellbeing than I wish him well and give him my thanks.

Thank you for making me fall in love with football again Ney and please take care of yourself. All the love in the world from your fans to you.