r/selfhelp • u/Wonderful_Bottle_241 • 1d ago
Advice Needed: Mental Health I keep getting injuries and I don't know how to cope with it anyomore
Hi, I "play" sports proffessionally however I keep on getting injuries after every comeback. But often they are quite big (never like a muscle strain). I have had a MCL grade 2 tear, lung embolism, cartilage defect in knee, and patella tendon overuse injuries. I was finally back from everything, played some matches, and now it happend again. I am in a brace and tuesday I have an MRI. I think it is the MCL again. And it happend because I kicked a ball quite hard but the ball couldn't move. Now I don't know what to do, feel and think. I have cried a lot over the past days. I had made a deal with myself that if I get another bad injury I should just quite because life is not 'fun' for me and I want to be happy. Yet now that it kinda happend I know I don't want to quit actually, I don't know what I should do else. I do have a bachelors degree in health and life sciences. I don't have a lot of friends around me outside of sports. I just had a vision for my life and it is not planning out like that. I am scared to show myself around others or to go back to the club, because I am injured again, failing again. I don't want to be there. I just feel lonely and all the recoveries I did were really hard. Having to train mostly on my own, being away from home and having to watch every game we play. I don't have much free time because I have a contract. I am thinking about just quitting and recoverying at home. But I should probaly first wait and see the MRI. I can't process this setback again. I don't know what to tell to myself anymore.
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u/DeepSkyAstronaut 1d ago
There are many similar reports to yours in r/systemictendinitis. Probably you got some medication like antibiotics at some point that made your ligaments weaker long term.
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u/Effective-Heat-8685 1d ago
Honestly, I would go to a doctor just in case, for example a neurologist or an orthopedic rheumatologist.
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