Former NFL quarterback Mark Rypien is opening up about his mental health conditions, which he says have been brought about by injuries he suffered playing football. Rypien is best known for winning MVP honors in Super Bowl XXVI and spent most of his Pro Bowl career, which ended in 2002, with the Redskins.In an interview with KHQ in Spokane, Wash., He considers the cause to be brain injuries suffered during his football career. He said that his life is "all a blur.""I suffer from a complex stew of mental health conditions," Rypien told KHQ. "Dark places, depre sion, anxiety, addictions, poor choices, poor decisions, brought about by dozens of concu sions and thousands of sub John Smoltz Jersey -concu sive injuries from playing this sport." Rypien said he's only alive today because his wife, Danielle, saved him from an attempted suicide. "I took 150 pills and a bottle of booze," Rypien said. "If it wasn't for my wife coming home and finding me on the floor, and shoving hydrogen peroxide down my throat, and charcoal, to throw up all these pills, I wouldn't be here Deion Sanders Jersey today." When KHQ asked him about a domestic violence incident between Rypien and his wife last year, he blamed it on new medication that he was taking. He also said that he can't even remember that specific night. KHQ reported that the charges were later dropped and the case was dismi sed. "Part of this thing is getting the right medications. When you use something that doesn't addre s that? That impulse control? You go from zero to 60 very quickly," Rypien said. "I don't remember that night. I remember losing control." KHQ also asked him about his involvement in a prostitution sting in Spokane in 2012. From their story: Later, when Vigil asked Rypien whether any of the women he may have been with were underage, he asked to stop the interview and briefly left the room. He returned some minutes later, apologizing that the question was "scary" and it "hit him like a ton of bricks", but said "To my knowledge, in all the years that I've been here, I've never been with an underage woman." Rypien's comments come after recent studies have shown a link between football and CTE -- Nick Markakis Jersey a degenerative brain disease that can't be diagnosed until after death. In 2015, In 2017, The league has also seen some players, , retire at a younger-than-usual age while like Rypien have opened up about their mental health i sues. As awarene s has increased, the NFL has tweaked its concu sion policy by giving officials, concu sion spotters, Dansby Swanson Jersey and independent doctors more power to pull players out of games, but problems persist. This past season, while. In an effort to make the game safer, the NFL recently and pa sed a new Still, the fact remains that football will "It's a collision sport," . "If we started a new sport today and we wrote up the rules and regulations and we called it football, they probably wouldn't allow it. We're all trying to do everything we can to make football safer, but that's the way the sport is: There are always going to be injuries. We're aware of that, and we're all working to keep it that way. We want it to continue, believe me." Rypien, who was the lead plaintiff in a concu sion lawsuit that was settled (), criticized the NFL."I think (the NFL) is a powerhouse. They're going to tie things up in court. And I truly believe they are going to tie things up in court until people die," he said.Rypien said his support team -- medication, mental and physical health specialists, and a regular doctor -- "have got me stabilized." He said Chipper Jones Jersey if he could go back, he wouldn't play football and that he'll donate his brain to science. You can