Barcelona striker Luis Suarez has told Uruguayan newspaper El Observador that he is "getting psychological help" after returning from his four-month football ban.
The Uruguay international was banned from all football activity by FIFA after biting Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini at the World Cup -- the third such offence of his career.
Former Liverpool star Suarez, 27, said he had been fully backed by Barcelona, the club he joined in a 75 million-pound summer deal.
"After the suspension I had some really hard times," he said. "I'm getting psychological help, and the club have been a constant support."
Suarez told the paper Barcelona had not asked him to apologise for his bite on Chiellini as a condition of his move from Anfield to the Camp Nou.
"I didn't say sorry in order to sign for Barca -- I said sorry for myself," he explained. "You see, at that point going to Barcelona was just a possibility. There was nothing agreed on.
"At no point did Barcelona require me to say sorry".
Suarez has yet to score for his new club since making his belated debut in the 3-1 clasico defeat at Real Madrid, but said he was happy as long as he played well and they won.
He shared last season's golden shoe with Cristiano Ronaldo after his 31 league goals helped Liverpool go agonisingly close to a first league title since 1990, and said: "I'm not worried. If I don't score goals and we win, I'll be happy all the same.
"I really want to celebrate a goal in the shirt of the team I've always dreamed of -- but strikers have scoring streaks and goal droughts."
He said he was frustrated not to have been shortlisted for the Ballon d'Or -- but acknowledged that he was "sure I haven't been nominated because of what I did at the World Cup -- adding: "In football, there's always another chance. It'll come."
And he laughed off claims in the Spanish media, made earlier this season, that he had been overweight when he arrived in La Liga.
Those claims were rubbished by coach Luis Enrique and Suarez also insisted that they were wrong, adding: "I was never overweight.
"The doctor who carries out the medicals at the club said I was one of the six players at Barcelona who had the lowest percentage of fat and lowest weight. It was all just part of the newspapers' game".