Simone Biles Syndrome strikes again: 2020 NBA draft pick retires due to “anxiety”

I don't know anything about this basketball player, but there have been several high profile baseball players that suddenly became unable to perform (Steve Blass, Kevin Saucier, Steve Sax).

Meant to reply, not just quote. But also she and her teammates were being molested on the reg by their team doc Larry Nassar. Couldn’t have helped matters.

Have you never quit a job OP?

Sadly, that's the way I was taught to do it. And, like putting two spaces after a period, it's hard habit to break.

Michael Masser wrote a song about this (Greatest Love of All - "learning to love yourself" - made famous by Whitney) in 1977. People have been talking like this for a long time now. Heck it's even in the Bible: "For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it..."

Dude already gave an explanation. At will employment goes both ways. He's not in the military or anything.

I didn't get the reference until your mention. Of course, I was compelled to look it up. Great story!

That's cool - language is fluid, so feel free to keep using subject and object pronouns however you want (except official settings). 1984 had some positive aspects: English could stand to clean up a lot of redundant crap.

Career earnings, 6mill. Does he have that money? Nice head start to the next phase of life if he does

hope he doesn’t regret this though, maybe he’ll take a year off and come back. He’s young enough, not sure he’s good enough?

hard for an outsider to understand this I guess. But try to Relax? Have some perspective? Life is hard. But not many are lucky enough to sign NBA deals.

This is the definition of a first World problem. Go for a run and enjoy it, because in most of your lives there's no bombs going off, the government will not kill you if you voice an opinion and you have food to eat and water to drink.

A lot of closet racists at letsrun

It’s their only choice for the most part

We don’t know his backstory. Presumably he’s been battling this and ultimately decided the only solution was to step away. Kudos for honesty. OP is implying this kid is just a snowflake - impossible to know.

Mardy Fish had his tennis career ruined by anxiety. Do you think he’s a snowflake?

And if the boomers' "stiff upper lip" approach works, why are boomer men the demographic that commits suicide at the highest rates in the US?

The word "I" has always been a subject, and "me" is an object. It isn't a generational thing. You just don't understand the grammatical distinction and follow rigid rules.

I don’t know, maybe. It seems to me that we are obsessed with our emotional equilibrium and talk about it constantly, almost to the exclusion of anything else. I am sure this young man is suffering, and he is a public figure so he had to say something. But I am unsure if it is necessary for everyone to speak about their private pain. “Bringing awareness” isn’t really necessary anymore.

Boomers don't understand why people just don't become alcoholics to deal with anxiety, like their generation.

The Bible definitely does not say that self love is the greatest love of all.

No, I don't. I went to a weird school where they cared very little how we wrote, and instead only emphasized the importance of what we wrote. I couldn't tell you what an object is then, and I can't now. I have a passing idea of what nouns and verbs are, but that's about it.

Anyway, the school no longer exists and the teacher is dead. I also don't care, to be honest. I've found that most people who pick at grammar on message boards are people who are losing an argument. YYMV.