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Evans, who tested positive at the Barcelona
Open, returned to the circuit in April 2018 and is currently
ranked at a career-high 28.
"When I first sat down with the sports psychologist he said I
was probably one of the angriest people he had ever spoken to,"
Evans told My Sporting Mind podcast.
"After I came back, he said I had so much pent-up anger from the
ban and how I was speaking about things.
"During some parts of the ban, you're disgusted with what you
did, but you have to move on at some point, there has to be a
line under the end of what you've done."
Evans did not have it easy on his return to the ATP Tour and was
left off the Wimbledon's wildcard list in 2018, having to play
pre-qualifying events before his home Grand Slam.
"Coming back, I had a few issues with trying to get back to play
and getting into tournaments, and I wasn't getting the easiest
of help from the people I had helped before," he said.
"I had played for my country a lot, and they were not so
forthcoming with helping me get back into tournaments. That's
where the anger came from. It was difficult. But we all sat down
and got it out of the way."
(Reporting by Sudipto Ganguly; editing by Peter Rutherford)
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