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The soccer player Guillermo Celis of 28 years old has had a good career that was born in Colombian soccer where he took off for Benfica in Portugal, but after being diagnosed with anxiety, Celis had to leave the fields because he felt he was not the same.
“Everything has been very difficult. Since I made the decision to leave because I did not feel mentally well talking about helping, collaborating”, said in an interview with the journalist Juan Felipe Cadavid.
After passing through Portugal with Benfica and Vita Guimaraes, he played in Argentine football with the team de Colón and returned again to Guimaraes. In 1200 he returned to Colombia to play with Deportivo Tolima where his health problems began.
“Many things have happened since my arrival in Tolima. In this last semester that passed, I felt fulfilled since the preseason, I think I showed it when I had to play, but I felt that it was not important for the team and neither did they. they made us feel, that’s where despair entered”, he recounted.
Soccer was the trigger for his anxiety and depression problems, so he saw a specialist and had to move away from the courts. Now tell how was the process to recover mentally.
“It has been very difficult having to take pills every day, feeling strange things in your body, sensations of running away, because it is simply that; desperation, anxiety, that the days go by and you can’t find a way out of things, it’s sad that something I love like soccer leads me to this,” Celis said.