Hi everyone, I am a 25 year old male and I’ve been playing sports since I was old enough to remember. Unfortunately I have been plagued since I was 21 with injuries. Especially a serious one including reconstruction surgery for my knee.
I feel today I have come to terms that for my career and future well being I may have to stop permanently. This is a hard choice for me because it’s the way I focus a lot of my mental health towards when playing. The issue for me is that I always want to give 110% and if I can’t do that I get down, comfort eat and generally become a different person.
I’ve tried alot of things to work around this. My sport is rugby and this requires a lot of physical strain on me now. I’ve also tried other sports such as football, golf, gym and even though I enjoyed boxing I struggled with the anxiety of fighting.
I’ve also tried resting, strengthening and seeing Physio’s to improve the situation. When I was going through my surgery I had to see a therapist because life was getting extremely dark.
My request to anyone is if anyone has been in a similar scenario please I would like your advice. Even if anyone has been in a situation where they’ve had to give something up and how they dealt with that. Please all help and advice is helpful