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Islanders goalie opens up about inner battles: Almost killed myself

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Robin Lehner had to drink a case of beer a day to ease his mind. He needed pills to go to sleep. The goaltender assumed it was part of his addiction to drugs and alcohol.

Instead, those were just a way for him to self-medicate. The new Islanders goalie was suffering from a mental disorder. After checking into a rehab center, he was diagnosed as bipolar 1 with manic phases, Lehner revealed in a heartfelt first-person account in The Athletic.

“Now all this is not the sole reason for bad decisions I have made in life, but they were definitely affecting my mental state in ways that I did not realize,” he wrote.