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Tomer Ginat's coping with anxiety attacks: "The whole world turned on me"
Forward to Baloua and the Israeli national team in rare exposure about his mental difficulties since moving to France: "Nothing prepared me for what I was going to go through. Asi Ezer got me out of it. Today I already have the tools to deal with it"
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Monday, November 22, 2021, 11:00 p.m.
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A morning after another victory with LeBloa Metropolitans, this time over the strong Wheelerban, and just before joining the Israeli national team's training ahead of the World Cup qualifiers against Poland and Estonia, Tomer Ginat was revealed today (Monday) as he never did before and shared via Twitter his dealing with anxiety attacks Since his move from Hapoel Tel Aviv to the French league last year.
Ginat said: "A little over a year ago, Noa and I packed our lives (and dogs), and set out on an adventure in Paris. We set out to fulfill a dream I had dreamed of all my life, to play basketball and do the thing I love most in the world - at the highest levels. But no one prepared me. "Why am I going to go through this period. I remember when we were sitting in the gate just before the flight, I felt the whole world turn on me and I asked myself 'why?'"
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"We were after four amazing years in Tel Aviv, close to all our friends, living the best life we could have asked for, I was the captain of Hapoel Tel Aviv. We were happy. I did not understand why we do it for ourselves, I could not see the good," he continued The basketball player. "At that moment all I could see were the things I would miss: the friends who would continue to meet every day without me, the family who would make Friday meals and holidays without me, life in the country would continue to run as usual, only I was far away."
Ginat continued: "I was exhausted, I saw black and after I was able to recognize that I was having a severe anxiety attack, I gathered courage and sent a message to Asi Ezer, I knew he went through a lot with anxiety in his life and after a little acquaintance between us a few weeks earlier I decided maybe he could help me. He does not really know me and I was not yet ready to reveal my coping with anxiety to people who do know me. Asi immediately understood, wrote me to talk to him again immediately on landing. "Get me out of this."
The forward added: "Since then I continue to experience small or large anxiety attacks from time to time but today I already have the tools to deal with it. I meditate, practice breathing, talk about how I feel about Noa, seek professional treatment from a psychologist and mostly not be afraid to share "Those close to me and now all of you. When I look back on this period, I say thank you. I have never had such an empowering experience as I had this year. In many moments I felt I could not go through it, and I discovered otherwise."
Ginat concluded: "It was the biggest challenge I went through in my career and in my life, and I'm the happiest person in the world I went through it. "First, just before takeoff with a good fake smile. Do yourself a favor."
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