“I left basketball for survival”

Laura Penaplayer of the caddy the Your for four seasons and who a few weeks ago announced his definitive retirement from basketball at the age of 25, gave an interview to 3Cat in which he acknowledged that “I left basketball for survival.” “My body didn’t respond to me, I didn’t know what was wrong or what the problem was,” he admitted. Peñawho revealed that he began to have anxiety symptoms in the caddy and it came to feel a fraud”.

“The decision has been coming over the months. And it was for survival: I reached a point where my body did not respond, I was mentally exhausted and could not find solutions: I did not know what was happening to me. “My last months were a constant contradiction: I know that what I am doing is not right but He still did it anyway. My obsessive compulsive behavior caused me anxiety and depression and I was aware of it, but I had to keep doing it,” he explains. Peña in the interview.