NBA Draft Pick Royce White Opens Up About Anxiety (Video)

Royce White, who played basketball at Iowa State University and was drafted in his sophomore year, was featured on CBS Sports for discussing his anxiety disorder in a documentary.

White was drafted to the Houston Rockets in June.

The first round draft pick said his doctor told him that he might want to give up on basketball.

"My doctor told me when I was 18," White remembers in the video. "She looked me right in the face and said that basketball might not be what's best for you. Because this industry is built to defeat somebody like you. I want people to see that you can deal with your disorder and chase your dream."

The video attached to this story follows White on draft night in which he isolated himself in a small office.

"I can't go in there," White says, looking through a gym window and pacing back and forth, in a scene that's difficult to watch. "I can't do it. I can't show my face right now. There's love in that room but the way my brain feels, that's fear. I'm working myself to get in there though."