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5:44
WORKING WITH PSYCHOLOGISTS
6:44
BECOMING THE BEST VERSION OF MYSELF WITH MY PYSCHOLOGISTS
8:54
MENTAL WELLNESS IS THE KEY TO HAPPINESS
9:44
REDUCING THE MENTAL HEALTH STIGMA ACROSS GENERATIONS
13:34
PREPARING FOR A TENNIS MATCH
16:54
TOP THREE SELF CARE TIPS
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[Music]
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I grew up in a country where
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because of my mom being a former tennis
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player all lies were on me everyone had
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something to say about me everyone kept
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saying that I'm not gonna make it and
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you know even though I had the right
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people around me trying to avoid all
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those thoughts then
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for a kid it wasn't easy to just you
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know
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block everything that you know I could
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hear from all the people around me
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so for me it was and I had a few coaches
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saying that you know
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it's tough for you to make it the top
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10. so when I got that level for me it
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wasn't something that I expected that I
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would you know achieve
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well everyone thinks that you know
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getting on top of the top of the game
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it's just something that
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yeah everyone is dreams often
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that's what everyone that plays tennis
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you know they want to just get on top of
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the game and on top of the ranking but
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I can tell you for a fact that it's not
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easy to handle it like for myself it
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wasn't easy getting to number three in
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the world which is my current ranking
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and it's
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the highest ranking according to it
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wasn't easy for me to handle the first
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few months
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not that number three was my goal number
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one is my goal and you know as I said
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multiple times you know winning grand
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slams and a lot of tournaments is my
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goal but
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it wasn't easy for me to handle it and
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being one of the best female you know
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tennis players at the moment
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it was there was a lot of pressure
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pressure you know and it wasn't easy for
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me to just carry that weight around I
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think everything started because I never
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ever expected to be one of the best
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players in the world
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then for me getting to that point it was
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something
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shocking and
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you know I remember that matching in at
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in Indian Wells that
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the semi-final and I just started crying
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and I was crying because I knew that for
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myself I achieved something big
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and it was it wasn't easy you know to
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handle you know the expectations after
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that then just going into terms as being
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sometimes the number one seed and you
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know I felt like I have to win I have to
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perform I have to deliver I have to
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there was a constant I have to
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um so for me was it took time for me you
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know just to feel like
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myself again as I said and to
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realize what I have to do to get over
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this
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um I've cried so many times in public
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for different reasons
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but
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it was okay like I I don't mind that I
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cried in public I don't mind that I was
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you know on TV and there were a lot of
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people watching me at that time
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because that was the feeling I had at
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the moment so I'm not I was not going to
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hold it or you know trying to hide it in
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any way
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um I do believe that there are a lot of
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players that you know
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struggle with the same emotions as I do
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in different ways
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I know that I'm not the only one and
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it's just that you know it's part of our
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life and part of life in general I guess
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[Music]
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I felt like I was miserable the last few
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months you know I felt like it it wasn't
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the Maria that
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um you know she smiles she laughs she
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enjoys life
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um everything had to do you know with
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results and everything you know was
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related to how good or bad I was playing
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um so for me it was it wasn't easy you
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know
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three month four month period after
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Indian Wells where I
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I was just you know thinking of
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winning winning and just you know stay
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up in the rankings and stay you know at
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the top of the game and that was the
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only thing I had in mind and that made
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me feel very tired very miserable as I
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said but now you know once I realized it
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I just
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you know found a way to turn things
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around
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you know I'm a person that
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I like to smile I like to laugh I like
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to enjoy life and I felt like
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everything except a few things in life
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that I was doing
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I was not happy and you know I was just
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going from I was just traveling from
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tournament to tournament just because I
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had to and just because the calendar was
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you know week after week and tournament
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after tournament and I was just in a how
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can I say like constant way of you know
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dealing with things that I did not enjoy
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doing
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I did not enjoy myself being on the
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court I had a few panic attacks every
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now and then and
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you know that was something very tough
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to handle and
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thankfully you know because I have the
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right people around me they helped me
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get over this
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I started back in 2018 working with a
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psychologist at home
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because I was a little lost you know
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with um
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you know with myself and I I lived for
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four years in Barcelona I did not enjoy
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it at the end so I just wanted you know
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to
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get myself and my mind in the right you
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know truck so
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I I started working with her she has
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helped me massively I still work with
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her like
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I tried to speak to her once a week I
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trust her with
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everything
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she's probably the person that she knows
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everything about me and I just yeah she
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has a
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very big place you know in my heart and
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she's a very big part of what I have
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achieved and what what kind of person I
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am today
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[Music]
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everything you know it can be about my
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career it can be about my personal life
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it can be about my family it can be
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about my team
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um obviously there is there are certain
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things that I we are working on and
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things that
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you know everyone has to work and
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certain things and certainly issues
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um
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but if there is a something that I want
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to focus more then we just focus on that
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we do a lot of exercises
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and it's very helpful I think it's the
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best gift that I've ever done to myself
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well
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it's a lot of obviously breathing and
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visualizing and just you know
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going back on my childhood and
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yeah things that it's tough for me to
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explain because
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a lot of people won't understand and she
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has her own way which has helped me
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maybe it doesn't help everyone but
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I really really feel them
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you know
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that that was the right thing to do and
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that is the right thing that I'm doing
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right now
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and recently you know I've been working
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with the sports psychologist
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um
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which he has helped me a lot on and off
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the court as well there are things that
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both of them have you know similar
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things on that I'm working on but a
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sports psychologist is more like
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you know skills inside the court the
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skills on how to avoid pressure avoid
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negative thoughts
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um how to speak nicely to myself
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uh just having the right routines before
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and during the match and after how to
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use the right words how to speak to
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myself how to speak to my team
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um you know it's these are new things
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but
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um
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I mean both of these people have helped
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me massively
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I think a lot of people don't give
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enough credit to what is mental Wellness
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Mental Health
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as I said before for me working with a
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psychologist and you know when I was
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23 you know having someone to speak to
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and just
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yes I'm very close to my family but it's
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different like there are things that
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you know she can help me with but and no
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one else can so for me that was
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that was the it was the best gift but it
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was just something that I will never
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regret because I think that
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it is the key to happiness it is the key
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to a lot of things
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[Music]
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around mental health because
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the oldest generation
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I believe that they felt like you know
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going through psychologist means that
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are speaking to a psychologist it means
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that I have some kind of mental issue or
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I'm crazy or you know something is wrong
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with me which is not it's the opposite I
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think that
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it's healthy to you know speak to
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someone it's healthy to try and become a
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better version of yourself and to solve
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all your
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because everyone has issues like let's
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be deadly honest like who doesn't have
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issues even if those are small ones or
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big ones or whatever everyone has issues
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so for me trying to you know get over
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these ones it was it's massive and
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that's why I think
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there is this stigma around you know
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mental mental health I still believe
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that there are a lot of people in Greece
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that like every country that you know
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feel the way I just
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spoke about how
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if you you know work on that then it's
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for sure you have a mental issue and you
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have a problem and whatever you you know
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however you want to describe it
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but I see a lot of my friends and my
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generation and a lot of
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um
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people around me that you know are
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working on that and I'm very happy about
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it
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on court if my physicality is not there
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and it's not a hundred percent because
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you know I run a lot I move well so that
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is one of my strengths on the court
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if I don't feel that good then
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yeah I get stressed I get like
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you know I'm not feeling good I'm not
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feeling like
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I can give 100 but then you know these
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two are connected obviously so if I'm
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good up here
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my movement and everything can get
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better
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sure I have ways of monitoring it and
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it's just that you know
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I I know what's good for me I know how
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much sleep it's good for me I like to
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sleep a lot I like to sleep early
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I like good food because I come from a
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country that you know would like to eat
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well and which for me it makes me happy
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you know having a good
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like a nice meal for dinner
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I go to bed and I'm happy and I'm
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satisfied so that already helps my next
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day you know and everything for either
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my match day or my practice day and I'm
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just in a better mood for sure
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it does affect it a lot I mean days that
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you know I just wake up and
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if you know I'm not the nicest you know
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person that doesn't happen that often
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but half days that you know I just
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you know I'm I'm pissed with no re like
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with no reason or I'm
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I'm not you know that smiley girl that
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you see right now
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um it can be I can be tough on the court
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I can be very tough on my on myself
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sometimes it can be tough on my team
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um
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which I'm not proud about but
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unfortunately like tennis we play week
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after week we're gonna have moments
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where you know we can all be like
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um I don't know robots every every
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single week
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I do like to visualize myself before you
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know going on the court just picturing
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myself on that specific chord I'm
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playing
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the tactic like follow tactic and just
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think about it in my mind and just you
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know go go through that by myself after
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I you know speak with my team
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um and then I don't want to be too
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serious before I match I like to have
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fun I like to you know joke around with
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my team because if things get too
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serious then I just it doesn't work with
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me like I'm gonna you know enjoy my
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10-15 minutes before the match with uh
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with my people and
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I'll try and just relax myself and just
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as I said enjoy myself before because
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otherwise it's gonna affect me on a
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negative way
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oh yes big time I get nervous sometimes
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it's just
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actually there are times that I don't
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want to go on court uh there have been
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times I didn't want to go on court but
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then
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I consider I don't know if this is gonna
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sound you know
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cocky or in any way just you know weird
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for someone but I consider myself a
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strong
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person
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um mentally and physically but then somehow
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I get over this and I just go on Court
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and do what I have to do and I think
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that's
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that's what got me that far
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foreign
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can be very lonely
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yeah there are times that
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especially this year like there were
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times that
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I was calling my mom and I was actually
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crying
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on the phone because
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I just didn't want to
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yeah I was feeling lonely I didn't want
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to be there
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and I felt like you know a little girl
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just
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calling her mom and just
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crying because I didn't want to be
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wherever that was
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[Music]
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some of the days that you know I wasn't
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feeling good
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I didn't want to get out of
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of bed I didn't want to get out of the
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room I just
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it was my room was like a cave it was
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everything like it was very dark and it
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wasn't very you know I had
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you know my coach is coming into the
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room just trying to
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get me out of it and just
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I remember we were in a place in Europe
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where I didn't want to go out of the
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room and just it just dragged me and we
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went for brunch but
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I did feel better you know getting out
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of the room so I felt like oh that might
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help me so then I started just going out
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for walks and
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obviously speaking to my psychologist
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really helped me doing the right things
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but
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yeah it was it was a rough time
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top three tips for taking care of myself
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is
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speaking to my psychologist
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having a good meal Greek food
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any Greek food is good and a good
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night's sleep [Music]
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