Bellingham vows to battle vulnerability in football to mark World Mental Health Day

Jude Bellingham believes it's crucial that footballers should be able to show when they're feeling vulnerable.

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00:00It's crucial and luckily it's something that probably gets talked about more now than it

00:05did in previous generations from what I've been told. I think there's just so many, with

00:13the kind of development of social media and technology there's almost more ways to view

00:20this negative content, there's more ways to attack someone negatively, there's more ways

00:27to make someone feel down and I think a lot of people are still, there's still a stigma

00:33around talking about it. I know for myself there's been times when I probably needed someone

00:38to talk to and wanted to keep up this kind of, you know, athlete, macho look of I don't

00:44need anyone but the truth is that you do and you'll feel a lot better for talking about

00:48your feelings and your emotions and I think it's really important that Loris address that

00:52as something that's, you know, a big factor in sports and society and I think if us as

00:58athletes are vulnerable with, you know, it seems like we have the world at our feet or

01:04our hands and we can do whatever we want and we earn so and so much money that we can never

01:09be affected by it and I think if we can show a vulnerability about mental health it can definitely

01:15open up a bigger conversation for those people who are struggling in the darkness in normal

01:20society as well and like I said that's the duty of people like myself in the situations

01:25that we're in.