During one of his 'darkest periods' recently, Kyrgios says he saw three or four different psychologists and sought professional help, but his friends and family helped him the most
citing depression and drug and alcohol abuse, writing: “I was lonely, depressed, negative, abusing alcohol, drugs, pushed away family & friends.”
“Just embracing that they do love you, I didn’t really understand that, my parents and my family really do care about me,” he told theNotably, Kyrgios doesn’t have a coach or a mind coach in his camp. One night in 2019 even saw him forced out of a pub at 4am before facing Rafael Nadal at the All England club the next day. Unsurprisingly, Nadal won that match.
“It was tough because then I starting dealing with all this negativity ... I just really struggled and I obviously got told, ‘You’re the next big thing in tennis, you’re the next big thing in tennis’. And these large shoes to fill, and I kept trying, trying and trying, just ended up snowballing into this dark cloud,” Kyrgios told the podcast.
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