There is nothing better than rewarding a year of hard work with a well-deserved vacation to disconnect and relax. If you also surround yourself with the people you love the most and with whom you have the most fun, all the better. Barça has just closed a glorious season, with its women’s team winning the Champions League, so it is logical that its captain, Alexia Putellas, paid tribute to herself.
“I have swollen to cry at the psychiatrist,” the reporter told her more than 180,000 Instagram followers, “You also leave there like… ‘Come on, let’s move on’. I put these things on you and tell you that I am going to the doctor to take care of my mental health because it seems super important to me that no one is ashamed of that,” he insists.
The former reporter for El programa de Ana Rosa laments that many make use of her exposition on this subject to make fun of her.
“People use it to insult me, to mess with me. Many hateful comments I receive are like ‘you’re crazy’, ‘lock yourself up’. Everything about my mental health, negatively,” he laments, “and precisely I show it so that they know that, to me, telling me that series of things is not going to make me ashamed to tell the process that I am going through or that I do not say how I feel”.
The reporter, who has always been very open about all the details in her life that have led her to seek professional help, insists: it is nothing to be ashamed of.
“Shame is killing, stealing, hurting people. That’s shame. Saying that you’re wrong in a moment of mental health and if it can serve, even a minimum, these 188,000 followers that I have, then I’ll be satisfied” , assures.
The reporter has also wanted to share how she has felt on this last visit, where she will probably have spoken at length about the controversies that she has had to experience lately, such as her attempt to reconcile with her ex-partner, Antonio David Flores or the latest attack by Rocío Flores, who described the reporter as “regrettable.”
What’s more, Marta Riesco shared one of the phrases that the specialist had said to her, which she assured that she was “going to get a tattoo”: “Don’t feel guilty about your reactions when you have defended yourself, because nobody puts themselves in your shoes and nobody knows what you can or have been able to feel”. She is clear, she plans to continue defending herself.
“There are very short people who use this mental health issue to ridicule me and, honestly, the shame is on you. And if you went to specialists, I surely should not have gone.”
Riesco is still going strong, and advises everyone listening to her to see a mental health specialist. “Don’t let people ridicule you for going to mental health facilities. Everyone should do it, at a better or worse time.”
