{"id":690820,"date":"2018-02-12T13:50:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T19:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=690820"},"modified":"2018-02-13T13:50:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:50:05","slug":"manziel-says-he-has-bipolar-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=690820","title":{"rendered":"Manziel Says He Has Bipolar Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2018\/02\/JohnnyManziel-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-690821\" \/>NEW YORK &#8212; Tyler native Johnny Manziel is speaking out &#8212; revealing he&#8217;s been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. And he wants to get back to the NFL. In an interview with &#8220;Good Morning America,&#8221; the former A&#038;M football standout admits he&#8217;s struggled with depression &#8212; and turned to drinking and partying as a way of coping. Manziel says he would self-medicate with alcohol, only to wake up to nothing. Manziel says about a year ago he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and is now on medication for that. He also says he&#8217;s stopped drinking. Manziel hasn&#8217;t played an NFL game since 2015 but says he&#8217;s working on a comeback and is asking NFL owners to give him another chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Tyler native Johnny Manziel is speaking out &#8212; revealing he&#8217;s been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. And he wants to get back to the NFL. In an interview with &#8220;Good Morning America,&#8221; the former A&#038;M football standout admits he&#8217;s struggled with depression &#8212; and turned to drinking and partying as a way of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=690820\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manziel Says He Has Bipolar Disorder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":690821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 00:21:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":690822,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690820\/revisions\/690822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/690821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}