By Jeph Duarte | Pounding The Rock (PtR), 2024-09-13 19:00:00
由生成式人工智能翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
这位年轻的运动员正在努力为 2024-2025 赛季恢复状态
上个赛季，马刺队 2023 年的二轮秀西迪·西索科(Sidy Cissoko)左脚踝受伤，导致他缺席了数周的比赛。
在新秀赛季的大部分时间里，西索科都在远离圣安东尼奥的地方，与发展联盟附属球队奥斯汀马刺队一起磨练球技。
在此之前的一年，这位法国摇摆人在发展联盟点燃队效力。诚然，他难以适应从拉斯维加斯的喧嚣到圣安东尼奥和奥斯汀地区的宁静。
去年 5 月一篇文章透露，他难以在德克萨斯州的首府找到舒适感。
“大多数时候，我都在发展联盟，因此在奥斯汀，我的公寓里没有多少阳光。这真的很令人沮丧。我意识到，即使我玩 PlayStation，我也玩得太多了。在堡垒之夜上，我花了相当于 160 天的时间！这段时间白白浪费了，我本可以在健身房里度过，本可以捐款帮助有需要的人，给我的家人打电话。我把时间浪费在上面了，所以现在我换了一种方式。”
赛季末，西迪开始带伤上阵。最终，西索科接受了轻微的手术。在此期间，这位年轻球员经历了抑郁症，但通过音乐找到了治愈之路。
“我不打算撒谎。在过去的几个月里，当我受伤的时候，我有点抑郁了。这很困难，因为我在寻找事情做。我终于学会了让自己忙碌起来。现在我把手机放在一边，我买了一架钢琴来学习弹奏，我让自己的头脑清醒。现在我弹钢琴很有乐趣；我弹得很多。”
西索科是众多与抑郁症作斗争的球员之一，但他们正在分享自己的经历，希望能让人们正视比赛压力带来的情绪。
近年来，马刺队摇摆人德玛尔·德罗赞(DeMar DeRozan)公开谈论了他与抑郁症的斗争。
显然，抑郁症并不局限于运动员，但男性在分享自己的情绪时往往会感到羞耻。当男孩们多年来一直处于竞争激烈的环境中时，这种情况会更加严重。
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Open Thread: How Sidy Cissoko turned depression into productivity
The young athlete has been working his way back into shape for the 2024-2025 season
Last season, Spurs 2023 second-round pick Sidy Cissoko suffered a left ankle injury that kept him from playing for several weeks.
During his rookie season, Cissoko spent most of it away from San Antonio honing his skills with the G-League affiliate Austin Spurs.
The year before that, the French swingman played with the G-League Ignite. Admittedly, he struggled with the transition from the sound and fury of Las Vegas to the quiet of the San Antonio and Austin areas.
It was revealed in an article last May that he struggled to find comfort in the Texas capital.
“Most of the time, I’m in the G League and, therefore, in Austin, and my apartment doesn’t get much daylight. It’s really depressing. I realized that even when I played the Playstation, I played too much. On Fortnite, I spent the equivalent of 160 days! This is wasted time that I could have spent in the gym, time that I could have made donations and helped people in need, called my family. I wasted time on it, so now I’m doing it differently.”
Late in the season, Sidy began to play with pain. Eventually, Cissoko required minor surgery. In between, the young player experienced depression, but found a healing path through music.
“I’m not going to lie. The last few months, when I was injured, I fell a bit into depression. It was difficult because I was looking for something to do. I finally learned to keep busy. Now I put my phone aside, I bought a piano to learn to play, and I clear my head. Now I have fun with the piano; I play quite a bit.”
Cissoko is another in a list of players who have dealt with depression but are sharing their experience in hopes of normalizing the emotions that often come with the pressure and stresses of the game.
In recent years, Spurs swingman DeMar DeRozan verbalized his challenges with depression.
Obviously depression is not limited to athletes, but there is often a stigma with men sharing their emotions. This can be elevated when boys are grouped competitively over years.
By Jeph Duarte, via Pounding The Rock
