Steve Young grew up so close to his parents that he could never attend sleepovers at houses of his friends due to severe separation anxiety and homesickness.

Young threatened to quit Brigham Young multiple times and also had performance anxiety.

Young admits in the book that a depression specialist in San Francisco diagnosed him with separation anxiety and told him: “Never once have I seen an adult with the kind of separation anxiety that you have.”

The diagnosis came months after Young was named the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1992.