After Naomi Osaka, Simone Biles or Neymar more recently, it is Lewis Hamilton's turn to share a certain psychological discomfort and to break the taboo of mental health problems of great champions and great champions.
After losing the title last year to Max Verstappen and a complicated start to the season at the wheel of his new Formula 1, the seven-time world champion opened up to his fans on his Instagram account.
“It's hard to stay positive some days.
I struggled mentally and emotionally for a long time, moving forward is a complicated effort but you have to keep fighting, we have so much to do and achieve,” he said. he shared to his 27 million subscribers.
Hamilton is aiming for an eighth world championship title
“I am writing to tell you that it is ok to feel things the way you do, just know that you are not alone and we are all going to get out of this!
concluded the British pilot, a bit like a Stromae who, in his song
L'Enfer
, explained to his fans that there was no shame in suffering from depression.
If Hamilton does not use the word as it is, however, he seems psychologically fragile in this new F1 season.
The next races will allow us to know more about the mental state of the man who is aiming for an eighth title of world champion for drivers, then synonymous with an absolute record ahead of the German Michael Schumacher.
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