Naomi Osaka saga puts spotlight on athletes’ mental health

25 thoughts on “Naomi Osaka saga puts spotlight on athletes’ mental health”

1. I am with you girl, your story inspires me to continue fighting, I absolutely cannot stand public speaking still to this day, I suffer from extreme anxiety and depression, agoraphobia, etc, js my whole point is you are not alone for there are many of us out here going through the exact same struggles as you and fully understand and support you, we are all human beings in the end without the gift of mental clarity and a normal balance of dopamine/serotonin/all chemical brain matter, just remember you are never alone 💯!

2. Perhaps Naomi's coach could go to the press conference in her place.

3. Naomi should boycott the French Open next year.

4. She has to be the figure who would tell her successors what she felt. She will consist perfectly of every experience she would has done. I am looking forward to watching Naomi playing tennis again✨

5. She can go retire with her 55 million dollars she made from not doing sports interviews. Suffering from a Serena Williams complex…It's all about me! Kick her out of the tpa tour

6. A solution to your problem is an easy one Naomi Haitian BLM supporters but not the Haitian cause. Just QUIT. Stop playing tennis its is oh so hard for you. poor baby. STOP THEN. Go to college, get a degree and find A REAL JOB. Finish High school first cause your education level is poor yet you are a millonaire. Yeah get a real job and you will find about mental health issues. You are a lottery winner, a one in a billion who has the chance to earn a living playing an irrelevant game. You should be THANKFUL and GRATEFUL.
   Shut up and retire or shut up and play. Do not come to me with your bs mental health.

7. Oh boy. So now we are supposed to feel sorry for a millionaire athlete ? ? Someone who made 55 million dollars last year. Who never has to work for a day the rest of her life. These egomaniacs, entitled athletes need a reality check. I find it terribly insulting Naomi bs. I would give my life if I could play 3 years in the tennis circuit. If I could play Roland Garros or wimbledon I would be extremely grateful and happy. And this entitled woman is complaining of mental health? Get a reality check woman.

8. I can't even imagine being a female and having to compete against guys pretending to be girls.

9. I’m with HER! You play your ASS off, and lose. Only to have some dumb ass reporter ( who doesn’t comprehend that level of dedication) ask, HOW DO YOU FEEL? what should you have done differently? Then if she responds “if I knew what to do differently I would have won! Guaranteed next day front page- “Oh how combative at the press conference she was 😱🤯

10. There’s obligations and then there’s nuisance. She answered questions after the match on court. What’s there to talk about anyway? Isn’t it obvious when someone lost or won in tennis? Serving, ground strokes, tactics, etc. she makes $50MM off the court last year. Don’t say she won’t have a career without tennis, especially somehow equating the writers can make or break her. Off camera, from her social media platform, she’s an powerful woman. With more followers and fans than the stupid press corp. Tennis needs to change in a big way or it’s ratings will continue to plummet. Did you know that the French Open was going on if it weren’t for this Naomi controversy?

11. She was bullied out by Gilles "Moron" and others (including players) who place media above mental health. These are the same people who would force their kids to listen to their bullies attacking them.

12. Next time some other player be like: I don't like audience because they are distracting, mean and depressing. Please ban them as I am struggling with depression and I don't like them supporting my opponent.

13. F&$@ off Naomi Osaka.
    Mental health?! Really?

    You are the richest women in sports, have millions of loving fans, have a team that would do anything you ask in an instant.
    You have accomplished something that little girls could only dream of.

    You want real mental health problems? Look at war vets. You couldn’t even comprehend the hell that war brings to ones psyche. Witnessing people’s limbs being blow off, brains being blow out, women and children being shot down like animals. The crazy thing is many war vets DONT EVEN COMPLAIN ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS even with going through hell.

    You can take your privileged life and your “mental health problems” and shove it straight up your ass

14. revise the contract to limit press conferences and the types of questions that can be asked.

15. Sponsors are not employers so if she doesn't front up, don't pay her.
    The hard luck cripple stories work on American Idol as the so called hard luckers are fronting up.
    Unless sponsors offer sick leave she should be treated like everyone else.

16. Jeez… There is a huge big difference between individual sports and interviews!

17. Serena danced around the question in a press conference. She basically said, "I have thick skin, some don't." How is that support? LMAO.

18. Woke Victimhood Culture!!! After 58 million dollars, you still paint yourself as a 'victim' of a vicious bully press. Victim like Megan Markle. 40-million in sponsorships, could you have earned that by yourself without the press trying to fuel your fame and promote you? Cant you see that your tennis itself employs bully-style? Why can't you roll with the punches, as your many defeated opponents have? This Victim Card succeeds in getting you more sympathy and lionizing world attention, as Megan did.

19. Ahhh. Boo hoo

20. Things in a person's environment like money and mansions does not affect the Personality or Mental Disorder that people develop from puberty to around age 25 when the Average Person's brain mature, however Personality Disorders do not require Medical Intervention and Mental Disorders will require Medical Intervention.

21. The media is doing its best to minimize the responsibility they hold in how she feels. They never exercise any restraint in the way they “ask questions.” They are provocative, foul and rude. They’re extremely disrespectful. When athletes want to move on to the next question all the reporters will remain silent and not ask another question until that athlete responds. Those reporters are a-holes.

22. She is young star under pressure, playing against people who wanted to win her. Coming from parents house suddenly a star with negative vides on her winning, 2018 she didn't have enough experience to dealing with cruelty words, booing, pressures. I think would be easier if she was already in the star industry and public eye.

23. Dr Shut Up
    Leave that DAMN girl alone if she doesn't want to talk to the Damn noisey A_s press leave this young girl alone what is wrong with you people 😡😡

24. What people without anxiety issues can’t fathom is the literal weight that lifts off your shoulders when this type of confrontation is avoided. The pressure to stay at the top is immeasurable to us lesser mortals so any decisions regarding mental well-being should be respected for what they are, personal decisions and applauded for being frank about it. If they really need a sound bite after a match ask the coach instead. Fairly disgusted with the competition organisers to even infer penalties for this. She isn’t having a McEnroe tantrum here so it’s they who need to grow up.

25. Why is it always the crying lefty’s with mental health issues? Sure seems to be a correlation there

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