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I owe a lot to Dan Cody former Oklahoma Defensive End. I don't talk about it much but I was diagnosed with severe panic attack/anxiety disorder when I was in third grade. I had trouble going to school because it would give me anxiety and make me have panic attacks. I learned to get threw it with help but the one thing that really helped me was football. I started playing football in 8th grade and then the time came to play at Westmoore High School. I went to offseason workouts for a few days and then started having anxiety issues because it was so new, hard and a shock to me. I talked to my dad and told him I was going to quit because I couldn't deal with the anxiety. My dad tried to talk me into sticking with it, but that didn't work. One

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