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[missizzy]

The thing about anxiety is that if it gets you fixated on something you have to deal with in particular, it can wreck havoc with your state of mind for the entire day beforehand. And while you can sometimes feel relief afterwards, that ain't a given, especially if you don't think you handled it well. If that's what Naomi Osaka suffered anticipating her press conferences? No wonder she wanted a break from it. From about the time the slams decided she was someone they needed to crack down on, it felt like bullying on their parts, and now that we understand what they were truly demanding she submit to...and now of course they're expressing their sympathies and such, but that feels pretty false of them, quite frankly.
I just hope she takes as long as she needs and gets her mind into as good a place as she can manage, though anxiety and depression have a terrible tendency to be chronic issues. And that maybe next time the powers of the tennis world think twice before they act.