Bulls’ Drummond missed game last week to clear his mind: It’s OK to ask for help. It’s OK to feel.

Bulls center Andre Drummond missed a game last week to clear his mind and address issues that had been weighing on him. He has since played in each of Chicago’s past two games and posted on Twitter that he was deleting his social media apps to focus on his mental health. Drummond is in his first season with Chicago and his 11th campaign in the NBA overall. He expressed appreciation for the support the team gave him and said he still has a lot of work to do with his mental health, but the Bulls have a job to do and that’s to win basketball games and get to the playoffs.

“I had to take some time away to really clear my mind and address some things that I’d been neglecting for a while,” he said after the Bulls rallied to beat the Memphis Grizzlies 128-107 on Sunday. “I feel OK. Obviously, I still have a lot of work to do with my mental. But we have a job to do. And that’s to win basketball games and get to the playoffs” the big man told ESPN.

“We’re looked at as superheroes, like nothing really bothers us and we don’t have a life outside of the game,” Drummond said Sunday. “That’s what people fail to understand, that we do have personal lives outside of the game of basketball. And it becomes taxing at times. That superhero cape we have on has to come off at some point. It’s OK to ask for help. It’s OK to feel. It’s OK to be emotional.”