100% agree.
We don’t know what is going on. In general it’s feels shameful to admit that you have issues, because it feels like it will lead to speculations about what it is. But what we do know is that more and more athletes get burnouts, anxiety attacks and stuff like that. Like anything else would be strange. Buffon was one of the first to acknowledge it. He missed several months in like 08/09.
When the body really protests as much as it can — which usually happens to the most stubborn people, who haven’t listened to the signals for a long time — you can’t just fight through it. I am 100% convinced that the best way is to acknowledge that there is an issue and just deal with it. Which Jadon has done here.
For such a long time, these type of things have been disguised. It’s common to hear experts claim stuff like “100 years ago, burnouts didn’t exist”. Of course they did. When you read about WWI and II, every other General had it. Churchill describes several incidents in his memoirs, like some general that had been a great warrior and had done a great job whom WC really admired asked to be relieved, he was asked to continue for another week, far away from the front lines and in an area that had cooled down a little bit for the moment, but he couldn’t do it. After like 3 days he had to give up. WC met him and claimed something like ‘he was in a sorry state, but no shadow should fall on him’.
100% it’s always been very common in sports among young and old, but called something else.
If Jadon can get back this season, great. If not, that is great to. It will take the time it takes. When he gets back, he will be a stronger person.
