Simone Biles Sets aside 1 Hour per Day to Worry about Everything

• Simone Biles highlighted the importance of mental health at the Tokyo Olympics.
• Biles stated that her methods of coping include taking an hour each day to think about anxiety-provoking things.
• The gymnast of 24 years keeps a list with the things that cause her anxiety and she opens it between 12PM-1PM.

Simone Biles She said that she has one hour each day to worry about the things that make her feel anxious and keeps it in a journal.

Talking during a video interview Peopleon Tuesday, the 24-year-old gold medal gymnast opened up about the trauma she deals with, that was, in part, drove her to withdraw from multiple finals at the Tokyo Olympics this summer.

Biles was the recipient “worry hour”Ideas from her therapist.

“I have pretty bad anxiety sometimes so she tells me in my worry journal to put from 12 to 1 p.m. — that’s the time I’ve selected — and anything I’ve written down in my worry journal, I use that hour to worry about the things then,”People Magazine: Biles. “And usually by the time 12 or 1 [p.m.] comes, I’ve already forgotten about all my worries so that kind of is a tool that helps me.”

Biles put the issue of mental health struggles among athletes and the general public in the spotlight in July, when she She went outShe praised her mental health and was able to attend her first Tokyo Olympic medal event, the women’s all around final.

“It’s been really stressful this Olympic games… it’s been a long week, a long Olympic process, a long year,”Biles said: ESPN’s Michele Steele. “I think we’re a little too stressed out — we should be out here having fun and that’s just not the case.”

“Once I came out here, I was like, no the mental is not there,”She continued.

Biles later elaborated, saying she had a case of the “twisties” — a condition that causes athletes to get disoriented in the air. She won bronze in the women’s balance beam final.

Biles said she is still scared to do her full gymnastics routine, but has returned to practicing moves that don’t involve involve twists, during an interview with the “Today Show“In October.