How Mehuli Ghosh battled depression to shoot down World Cup gold | More sports News – Times of India
CHENNAI: It’s often easier to express your physical pain than show to the outside world how broken you are from inside. Shooter Mehuli Ghosh would vouch for that.
Mehuli, who won a gold and silver in the team event in 10m Air Rifle Mixed final at the ongoing World Cup in Changwon, South Korea, suffered a serious setback some years back due to a freak accident and battled for years to get her career back on track.
In 2015, at a training session at the Serampore Rifle Club in West Bengal, she misfired a shot, which hit one of the employees in the leg. Mehuli was suspended by the federation and wasn’t able to take part in competitive shooting for some years after that, which pushed her into depression.
Everything was going well for Mehuli before that unfortunate incident. At that point, she had no option but to pack her rifle and her shooting gear. She found it difficult to cope with the bizarre situation, but her mother Mitali could not see her daughter suffer so much, she had to find a solution.
She realised that her daughter had developed a mental block which would eventually destroy her life. She contacted renowned mental health coach Mreenal Chakraborty and results started to show almost immediately.
“It was an extremely difficult phase of our lives, especially for Mehuli. She was only 15 when that unfortunate incident happened. She lacked the maturity to handle such a shocking development. She was suspended by the federation and went into depression. Mehuli was unsure of picking up the rifle again as she lacked confidence. She would express her anxiety to me, but I was determined to get her back on the shooting range. My daughter is immensely talented and I couldn’t let her career get ruined just because of a freak accident,” Mitali told TOI on Thursday.
“I could figure out that mentally she wasn’t the same person. I contacted Mreenal da and he assured me of help. I am thankful to him for the support he gave to Mehuli during that tough phase,” she said.
According to Mreenal, who is assisting the national archery team at the moment, Mehuli was going through a phase in which she was unable to forget about the accident that took place at Serampore Rifle Club.
“Mehuli was very young and after that incident she was so traumatised that she started believing that she would never be able to shoot again… It was more of a mental blow. Since I had handled such cases before, I was confident of getting good results after a few months of training her and eventually she started showing great improvement. I had to re-pattern her subconscious mind. It’s called timeline therapy, which is a technique to remove all negative feedback and erase previous bad memories from someone’s mind.
“It feels nice to see her winning gold at the World Cup for the country again. She has a great future ahead,” said Mreenal, who had worked with the senior Indian men’s hockey team during the Tokyo Olympics.
Mehuli, who won a gold and silver in the team event in 10m Air Rifle Mixed final at the ongoing World Cup in Changwon, South Korea, suffered a serious setback some years back due to a freak accident and battled for years to get her career back on track.
In 2015, at a training session at the Serampore Rifle Club in West Bengal, she misfired a shot, which hit one of the employees in the leg. Mehuli was suspended by the federation and wasn’t able to take part in competitive shooting for some years after that, which pushed her into depression.
Everything was going well for Mehuli before that unfortunate incident. At that point, she had no option but to pack her rifle and her shooting gear. She found it difficult to cope with the bizarre situation, but her mother Mitali could not see her daughter suffer so much, she had to find a solution.
She realised that her daughter had developed a mental block which would eventually destroy her life. She contacted renowned mental health coach Mreenal Chakraborty and results started to show almost immediately.
“It was an extremely difficult phase of our lives, especially for Mehuli. She was only 15 when that unfortunate incident happened. She lacked the maturity to handle such a shocking development. She was suspended by the federation and went into depression. Mehuli was unsure of picking up the rifle again as she lacked confidence. She would express her anxiety to me, but I was determined to get her back on the shooting range. My daughter is immensely talented and I couldn’t let her career get ruined just because of a freak accident,” Mitali told TOI on Thursday.
“I could figure out that mentally she wasn’t the same person. I contacted Mreenal da and he assured me of help. I am thankful to him for the support he gave to Mehuli during that tough phase,” she said.
According to Mreenal, who is assisting the national archery team at the moment, Mehuli was going through a phase in which she was unable to forget about the accident that took place at Serampore Rifle Club.
“Mehuli was very young and after that incident she was so traumatised that she started believing that she would never be able to shoot again… It was more of a mental blow. Since I had handled such cases before, I was confident of getting good results after a few months of training her and eventually she started showing great improvement. I had to re-pattern her subconscious mind. It’s called timeline therapy, which is a technique to remove all negative feedback and erase previous bad memories from someone’s mind.
“It feels nice to see her winning gold at the World Cup for the country again. She has a great future ahead,” said Mreenal, who had worked with the senior Indian men’s hockey team during the Tokyo Olympics.
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