When Nadal sought a psychiatrist because he was choking on his own saliva: “They gave me a medication that allowed me to improve”
Nacho Encabo
20 May, 2026
MADRID – Rafael Nadal sought the help of a psychiatrist to escape his darkest period: that 2015–2016 season when anxiety overcame the man who would eventually go on to win 22 Grand Slams. “I was choking on my own saliva,”
