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Former Liverpool defender Stephen Warnock has revealed he contemplated suicide after falling out of love with football.
The two-time England international started his career with the Reds, making 67 appearances as the club won the Champions League, FA Cup and European Super Cup.
Sold to Blackburn Rovers for £1.5m in January 2007, Warnock would later join Aston Villa in August 2009 before dropping down the divisions with stints at Bolton Wanderers, Leeds United, Derby County, Wigan Athletic, Burton Albion and Bradford City.
Losing "the buzz" for football as a result, Warnock has revealed how he suffered with depression during both the latter years of his career and after retiring, and at his lowest point even contemplated taking his own life.
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"I felt like I was getting frustrated with football," he told Sky Sports as part of their Real Talk series.
I felt down, it depressed me.
"I looked back on my career and thought I was a failure.
I wish I had just gone, 'I've had a great run, I've lost the love for it, I'm going to find something else that makes me happy'.”
Fortunately, Warnock is in a much better place now following a chance encounter at Liverpool Lime Street station with an old friend who was training to be a counsellor.
I dug deep, there were a lot of tears, there was a lot of honesty.
"I remember coming off that call, and thinking I felt so different within one session.
He'd give me homework to do, and the more homework I was doing and thinking about things, working on things, the better I felt.
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