Former tennis player Jelena Dokic tells the National Press Club about her experience with anxiety, depression, PTSD and an eating disorder and says that in sport, ‘silence was golden’ – and this silence could lead to death. As a victim of domestic violence herself, Dokic argues that having open conversation about stigmatised topics is an antidote to this. ‘Vulnerability is a superpower. We have been taught so often that vulnerability is a weakness, a massive weakness. But in fact, to be vulnerable takes so much guts and courage,’ says Dokic
Jelena Dokic: ‘I was a woman with nothing to aspire to, no goals and dreams left’
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