LoL coach Saintvicious under fire after mocking depression as \u201ca made up excuse\u201d Update, December 9 08:29 am EST: FlyQuest have now confirmed Saintvicious\u2019 resignation, along with an apology statement from the now former head coach. Original article below. Twitch streamer, and League of Legends caster and coach, Brandon \u2018Saintvicious\u2019 DiMarco has come under fire after claiming that mental illnesses like depression, anxiety and ADHD are \u201cmade up bullshit.\u201d Saintvicious is a well known figure in League of Legends, currently the coach of NA LCS team FlyQuest, and also streams regularly on Twitch. During a stream on December 8, Saintvicious answered a question from chat about mental illness, specifically depression, and his answer surprised viewers. He said that having experienced \u201cdepression\u201d in his own life, he was able to cure himself by \u2018fighting his way out of it\u2019. More: YouTube Rewind 2018 video on course to break dislike record \u201cI have been in points of my life where I\u2019m like \u2018depressed\u2019 or down. But then I just woke up one day and I\u2019m like \u2018I\u2019m going to fight my way out of this shit, because I\u2019m being a little weak bitch.\u201d He goes on to claim that it\u2019s not an illness, and also mentions other mental health issues like anxiety and ADHD, calling them \u201cmade up bullshit.\u201d His comments were later shared to Reddit, where users blasted Saintvicious for his view on depression and mental health. User dispoable writes \u201cThe problem is he\u2019s totally willfully ignorant to all of those topics. What he had was some bad days but depression, anxiety, and ADHD is empirically proven to be real things.\u201d Another commenter was surprised that this was the stance Saintvicious took since he claims he too has suffered from depression. Saintvicious has a popular stream with over 180,000 followers on Twitch, but even many of his fans and viewers were not in agreement with his stance, with one writing in chat \u201clost all my respect\u201d and another saying \u201cI don\u2019t see what\u2019s wrong with getting help.\u201d Mental health has been a major issue within the gaming community particularly, and so it is surprising to hear a prominent esports coach voice this opinion, clearly angering some fans. At the time of writing, Saintvicious has not responded to any of the backlash or attempted to clarify his comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LoL coach Saintvicious under fire after mocking depression as \u201ca made up excuse\u201d Update, December 9 08:29 am EST: FlyQuest have now confirmed Saintvicious\u2019 resignation, along with an apology statement from the now former head coach. Original article below. Twitch streamer, and League of Legends caster and coach, Brandon \u2018Saintvicious\u2019 DiMarco has come under fire […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}