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Why a college football coach hid his bipolar disorder diagnosis for 30 years

Brent Guy retired last year after more than three decades as a college football coach. At age 59, he retired because he had had enough. It wasn't that he had had his fill of the long hours and short sleeps or that he didn't enjoy competing or that he no longer enjoyed working with young people.

No, Brent Guy retired as FIU defensive coordinator a year ago because he had had enough of keeping a 30-year secret.

"This was a very lonely disease," Guy said. "Until now, I have never had a friend that I knew of that had what I had, had some type of mental illness, especially bipolar disorder.