Holdsclaw suffering from depression
在球季後段忽然消失的Holdsclaw,接受Washington Post訪問
Holdsclaw suffering from depression
October 29, 2004
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mystics star Chamique Holdsclaw says she left the team in
the middle of the WNBA season because of depression.
Holdsclaw, then the league's second-leading scorer, stopped playing for the
Mystics in July to deal with an undisclosed medical issue. She felt afraid
and ashamed to discuss what was wrong with her, she told The Washington Post
in her first interview since her departure.
``Depression, people just don't realize how it can take over your mind,''
said Holdsclaw, the WNBA's No. 1 overall pick in 1999. ``Yes, I was walking
around and looked fine.''
She has been under a psychiatrist's care since becoming increasingly withdrawn,
alienated from teammates and family and even her oldest confidantes, she said.
She changed her cell phone number so that Washington general manager Pat Summitt
, her former coach at Tennessee, couldn't reach her.
``I just kind of had to break away from all that,'' said Holdsclaw, who added
that she slept a lot. ``I was just doing my own thing, just living without all
of the expectations.''
The Mystics went on an improbable playoff run in her absence, winning five of
their last six regular-season games before losing to Connecticut in the first
round of the Eastern Conference playoffs.
Holdsclaw said she never watched her teammates or any other sports on TV. She
sat on the couch in her apartment just a block from the MCI Center.
``Everything was negative,'' she said. ``Dark.''
One Mystics fan confronted her in public about her absence, she said.
A passing motorist rolled down his window and began berating her, telling her,
``You need to get it together! You need to get back on the court!''
Holdsclaw responded angrily.
``Do you know me?'' she shouted ``You don't know me!''
Holdsclaw missed seven of the Mystics' final eight games. The forward refused
to discuss the reason for her absence, other than to rule out cancer,
pregnancy and drug addiction.
In a statement issued last month by the team, Holdsclaw said her condition is
not life-threatening or career-threatening.
She failed to show up for a game against Charlotte on July 24. Holdsclaw played
in the next game, against Detroit as a reserve, and didn't play the rest of the
season. She was placed on the injured list Sept. 1.
Holdsclaw was averaging 19 points per game. She opted out of the U.S. national
team for the Athens Olympics, and missed the WNBA All-Star game
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