"There was a mile-long list of lawsuits," Armstrong said. "Income went from some exorbitant amount to zero... You can’t go through all of these things without suffering PTSD. I think we as a society hear about PTSD and we associate that with people that have been at war and have lost comrades and have seen death and have killed people... PTSD is not exclusive to soldiers, it’s certainly not exclusive to me."
He said that he went to Onsite in Tennessee, a therapy and counselling retreat. "Onsite is five days, all alone, one-on-one, 10 hours a day," he confessed. He also said that he "threw himself into fitness and health" in the years after his
doping confession. "I ran a lot," he added, "I swam. It’s not necessarily a workout I picked up the game of golf."