He tried to wean himself off of them, but that caused withdrawal symptoms similar to the flu – a lot of nausea, a lot of vomiting. In a postgame press conference on Sunday at Detroit’s Ford Field, he explained that he viewed the antidepressant medication that he was on as a crutch. “I was living in hell for a long time,” Johnson said. For 13 years, Johnson has battled something more relentless than any pass rusher lining up across from him on Sundays. Lane Johnson opens up candidly about his battle with anxiety disorder - PE.comīut the popularity and success don’t make up for a clinically diagnosed anxiety disorder that was unearthed when Johnson was at Kilgore College, a junior college in Texas, in 2008. Let’s get to the Philadelphia Eagles links.