My Journey through the Biopsychosocial Model

my name is Emery Main and this is my journey through the bio psychosocial model.

Let me start with the beginning, My beginning

is softball.

This is something I found that I could apply the bio

psychosocial model to and being an athlete and playing softball.

I would consider softball being my first love.

I truly fell in love with the sport when I was 10 years old,

it was something I could be passionate about and I absolutely

fell in love with the sport and everything about it.

And

this is a picture of me, my sister and my grandfather. When I first started playing

Training, I practice 20-25 hours a week

and I did a lot of extra work on my own

just so I could become better and become a better player.

I practiced during the week in most weekends.

I never really had a lot of time off

because I was always practicing or I always had games

and I played year round. So I never took like a few weeks or a few months off.

I was always constantly playing and practicing and

I spent

a majority of my youth playing softball and practicing.

My main goal

was to have a free education. Once I learned

That I could have a free education,

I didn't realize that until I was about 1314 that if I was good enough

and I applied myself that I could play softball in

college and receive a scholarship and have a free education

and I did achieve that I got to live that

dream out for two years and I received my associates degree

playing softball and I had a free education.

So one of the factors of the bio psychosocial model is

the psychological factor

softball helped me improve my concentration.

I had to concentrate on things in front of me and

playing softball. I was able to really focus on things at hand and

learn how to

concentrate on things that are in front of me and things that I can control.

I

I learned a lot about concentration and really

settling down my thoughts and my emotions

and really concentrating on things at hand.

Another thing is it helped me manage stress in my life. Um

whenever I was in middle school and high school,

which is stressful enough times as it is,

softball was always there for me psychologically,

it was something I could go to and I could never

settle down my emotions and my thoughts and it was always there to help me

get through those times and really

escape from reality for a little bit. And it also helped with my parents divorce

when I was younger.

It those are two very tough times in our lives,

middle school and high school and a parent divorce.

But softball was always there for me in a way because it was something I could go to

whenever I was sad or upset and it helped

me manage dress because I was exercising and I was

being out with my friends and I was just

escaping from all of the stress in my life in a way.

And I also,

I had a high self esteem because I valued myself when I did well whenever,

whenever I got a hit or whenever I pitched really good.

I it helped my self esteem and it helped me set goals

for my life and help me

become a better person and

grow.

And my self esteem has always been good because of

softball because I always valued what I did in softball.

And one of the biggest things I think for me was learning to control my emotions

in softball when you're upset or when you're

sad or whenever you're feeling any negative emotions,

you have to brush them off

and soft dog

being in that time in my life, I was very

good at learning to control my emotions and whenever I was upset

or mad, I would be able to communicate my emotions instead of showing my emotions.

And some evidence of this is from active Norfolk.

The mental benefits of sport

participating in this kind of activity 3-5 times a week for

at least 30 minutes

can provide mental health benefits which will last as you age

in regular physical activity helps keep your key mental skills sharp as you age.

This includes sharp thinking, learning and using good judgment.

Yeah.

Going back to the other factors of the bio psychosocial model

social,

So for me social,

the social factor was very big when I played softball,

I was around girls my age and it created a community, not just with the girls,

but with the families of the

girls I played with.

And it was such a community that I still am a

part of because I grew such strong ties to everyone I met

and it created a sense of belonging to something bigger than myself

and it was just such a great community and great group of girls.

I was always around and it was just

there, it made me feel good about where I was and I felt like I belonged there. And

another thing that

softball created for me with stronger ties for my family because my family,

we're providing

um money too,

my tournaments and my sports equipment

and they provided their time to take me to my tournaments

and they provided everything for me to have a good

softball career and I'm just very thankful and close to

my family because of everything that they've done for me.

And another thing is I aimed

for good grades so I could

go to college and play softball and I always wanted to

do well in school because the community I was in is

grades come first, softball comes second

and I always valued that and I always put my grades above softball.

Some evidence behind that is from the social

and academic benefits of team sports article,

a university of Kansas Kansas study,

looking at the performance of students in grades 9 to 12

showed that more than 97% of student athletes graduated high school,

10% higher than those students who had never participated in sports.

That diverse pairing of personalities and scenarios

will help you your athlete become adaptable,

persistent and patient

team sports also teach a sense of group and individual responsibility.

And another factor of the bio psychosocial model would be the biological.

This one for me is a very big one in

my life and it has affected my psychological and my social

factors of my life. Um,

so I was always able to maintain a healthy body weight because

I was always active. I was always running. I was always

doing and moving around

and when you're moving so much you have to learn a healthy diet in which I did.

I learned a healthy diet and I learned how

foods

affect your ability to play and affect your body.

And I was able to increase my heart capacity

and have a healthy heart in my

blood,

my blood pressure,

and I was able to have good heart health at such

a young age because I was so active and playing softball,

I was much more prone to recover from illness and injury

because of the way my body was designed and how I created

a better

metabolism and better

habits from playing softball,

a big injury I had.

That was my career ending injury for softball was in my second year of college,

I had an accident that resulted in two herniated disc in my back

and I had two choices, I could either have surgery

or I could keep playing

or I could quit softball

and the treatments I did. So I did decide to quit softball after two years of playing.

I did this to prevent any further damage.

And so some treatments I did were physical therapy.

Cupping stem and I went to the chiropractor a lot.

I quit softball because I'm only 21 years old and if I would have kept playing,

I could have damaged more nerves and more

more damage in my back and I could have

down the road in my life, I could

end up paralyzed or it could end up having really bad back problems.

Some evidence from

this is people who are active in sports

have in general better health than those who do not participate in

sports because they are physically and

mentally prepared for the challenges of sports

abilities that in many cases can be transferred to other parts of their life.

Come here

present where I am now in my life.

So softball ended for me about a year ago, but where I am now

my body um biologically,

I know it is important to have regular checkups

with your doctor to prevent illness and injury.

And if there is a problem that treatment

has begun before irreversible damage is caused.

For example, when I entered my back,

I immediately went to the doctor multiple times to complete treatments such

as physical therapy and stem even after months after the injury.

So I couldn't.

So I now continue regular checkups to make sure no damage is continuing to happen.

And I see my chiropractor once a month to adjust my spelling

my mind.

So psychological,

I know it is important to keep your

mind healthy because it does affect your physical body

where I am now in my life. I go to therapy once a week to talk with a therapist.

I practice mindfulness to help ease anxiety and stress

in my life since I don't have softball as an

as an outlet anymore.

So I have to find alternative ways of easing anxiety and stress in my life,

my surroundings.

So socially, I know it is important.

We surround ourselves, who we surround ourselves with

by surrounding ourselves with positive influences.

We become motivated and happier.

I choose to put myself out there to continue to grow and meet new people.

However,

I keep my family and friends close because they are upbeat and they pushed

me to be better and my family and my friends are my rock and they

will always be there for me.

My thoughts about this project.

It's hard

to look at our own life through different factors,

especially the bio psychosocial model.

But this project has truly showed me how things in my life are all connected

with our minds, our body and our social life,

and how everything that we do and everything

that we apply in our life can all

be connected. And I really did enjoy this project because I had to sit

in

annualized my life and how everything is affected in my life and how

it's not just one thing that's affected, but it's multiple things that are affected

and

last but not least, the references I used for

my project,

and that is it. And that was my journey through the bio psychosocial model.

My Journey through the Biopsychosocial Model

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