Bundled in Mental Health Controversies, Naomi Osaka Breaks the Shackles With an Honest Confession – ‘Why Would I Keep Pushing?’
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For the past few years, the tennis star, Naomi Osaka, has been quite open about her mental health problems. Not only she has talked about her own mental and physical health but also about how it is important to keep one’s mental health in check from time to time. Recently, the Japanese tennis player was promoting her first book on ‘The Late Show’. She made a clear confession about why she chose to open up about her struggles.
Osaka, who has won four Grand Slam championships in her tennis career so far, did withdraw from a Grand Slam event a year ago due to mental health issues.
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Naomi Osaka makes a candid admission about her mental health
Dealing with mental health on or off the tennis court has been a striking issue for some or the other tennis player. However, why it is important to open up and talk about these struggles? Naomi Osaka recently made her part of the revelation on why she choose to break her silence on this topic.
"If I am feeling this way, why would I keep pushing through it, when I can kind of confront it and fix it and then continue on my journey." — Tennis champion @naomiosaka on her journey with mental health
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She said, “I think for me I have just always been taught to kind of like stick it out or like work through it and I think that’s a very valuable lesson because it has gotten me through a lot of things in my life but there’s just a point where I thought to myself like ‘why’ and not in a negative way but If I am feeling this way, why would I keep pushing through it, when I can kind of confront it and fix it and then continue on my journey.”
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According to the 25-year-old tennis player, there was no reason to keep pushing something that can be confronted and fixed and then have a normal journey by getting back on track.
When Osaka took a sudden withdrawal from the French Open
The Japanese tennis player competed at the French Open the previous year, in 2021. However, she abruptly decided to get out of the tournament in order to take a break from all the attention.
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After winning the first round, the 25-year-old tennis player withdrew when she fled the court and skipped the news conference. The former world number one admitted to experiencing anxiousness before speaking to the media at the time. She also added that she often faced depression.
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Hitesh Nigam