"i felt like i was falling" : Camille Lacourt’s poignant confessions on her burnout

A touching testimony delivered by Camille Lacourt on Monday, April 10. guest of the show C youCollaborating with the Medical Research Foundation, the swimmer described the burnout that affected him. He wanted to take precautions around this mental illness that affects many French people. “We don’t get up one morning. We stay in bed. We tell ourselves it’s useless”remembered in the preface. “And it lasts. A week, two weeks. I had this image, I got the impression that I was falling, like I was in a constant freefall.”, continued the former swimmer, the five-time world champion. After a long recovery period, he finally managed to escape. “One day I realized that I was the one who had to decide to hit the ground to get up. The key for me was to set very small concrete goals for myself: shaving my beard, washing myself.” every day, take my meals at certain times etc.said Camille Lacourt.

Columnist Matthieu Belliard, who left his swimming career in 2017, was asked about the reasons that drove him to this burnout, and he explained that it was his poor performance at the London Olympics that triggered him. “I’ve worked for years to get to the Olympics, I was the reigning world champion… and I’m fourth in the Games. I tell myself 10-15 years in the swimming pool were useless. I ended up failing.”Camille Lacourt continued, but explained that athlete burnout is different from what usually happens in the more traditional business world. “It’s really a backlog in business and maybe a moment when people feel pressured and can’t find a way out”he finished.

“We have to democratize burnout, it happens to powerful people. Burnout is the body saying stop to the mind, and talking about it is perhaps the first step to making it mundane!”@Cam_Lacourt Inside #This is you pic.twitter.com/uAj3k8ZTcf

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