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Did you know that?

According to the C C, more than 50% of Americans

are diagnosed with a mental illness or disorder sometime in

a lifetime.

Is it so prevalent for mental illness?

Diagnosis? Then why is there this constant stigma of much

illness within student athletes?

Yeah, it's because student athletes have toe manage all these

external influences with their athletic schedule.

Syria athletes and typical college students have such a vigorous

class schedule that they have to come complete.

It is recommended that for every hour spent in class,

a student spends 1 to 2 hours outside of the

class was studying or doing supplemental assignments.

Furthermore, students are recommended to work and get a job

to make money for that tuition to pay off the

tuition for the college has spending money balancing a job

schedule and a class schedule.

Itself alone is very challenging, and on top of that

practice schedule, workout schedule and game schedules, it just adds

a different level of stress and you have extra extra

curricular involvement in life in general that it's just nice

to be involved in digging a well rounded education.

However, for actually curricular activities, society places such high standards

on us.

You want to be successful ghetto hike this high level

career, receiving this high monetary value.

You want to get a good post secondary school and

a good job.

You have to have these high grades.

This G p a.

This and this test scores.

Oh, you want to be happy and satisfied.

You have to have this body image.

Why are there such unattainable standards but presented necessarily in

social media?

Every time somebody attains them, it's like, Oh, no, you

don't get that.

They're actually now appear This causes amount of unneeded stress,

then student athletes, especially because you have to balance trying

Thio satisfy those society standards with our athletic schedule.

Already in this constitutional factors our cause, the presidency of

mental illness and student athletes hover monthly illness whenever Istituto

athlete speaks out against their effectiveness.

Yeah, by Matt Illness.

It's seen as weak.

Why is that?

It's because our culture has sown that elite athletes who

perform at elite levels had this mental toughness, that constant

grind who never give up When they have a lost

they forget about it and move on, just work out

Well, you move on Lexus store.

Hello! Go heavier.

We have this constant grind that we always have as

athletes. Yes, it's good to have that Push yourself, never

give up.

However, for external factors like I mentioned before, that influenced

the onset of mental illness, not just the athletics itself.

Thankfully, these primary sources Victoria Garics, Ted Talk at U.

S. C.

And Emily Cookies is research study kind of harmoniously address

the stigma within student athletes.

Victoria Garrett was a deer vision one bottle player at

the University of Southern California.

On her Ted talk, she explains and uses her personal

experiences to just and to address how much how pressure,

How much question she felt.

So experience affecting affected by mental illness is as a

student athlete, she says, that our culture and I quote,

it's It's so hard for student athletes to differentiate between

hard work and dedication and pushing ourselves too far.

This is when we give up this week, even though

when we can't handle any more who, she says.

Study found that less than 50% of NC double A

affiliated campuses have a written plan of action and or

resource is available for students and coaches to go to

regarding mental illness if you take Victoria Garics experience in

her quote that it's so hard differentiate between hard work

and pushing ourselves too far in Crucial says research of

less than 50% of campus is having a plan that

demonstrates why there's a stigma and why there's a lack

of resource is and why students athletes are afraid to

speak out against him at the illness.

Nevertheless, there are some organizations and groups that do help

address and advocate for this de stigmatization of magic.

Illness, for example, has collaborated with sports and science institution

to provide resources to both student athletes and coaches and

ways to cope with mental health and stress.

But as a soon athlete, their sources death that came

out recently with are very helpful in the age of

19. Similarly, the balance position, another organization, created an APP

a couple a few years ago in which athletes and

coaches are able to track there changing behavior or transit

they noticed so they can understand.

Oh, my behavior is changing a little bit, so maybe

I should consider this and be more serious about it,

and then they can reach out and get that help.

I'll talk to somebody about it.

So they're my incident healthier With those healthier minds, the

performance increases.

Lastly, we have an opponent.

Pan Opponent is an organization that was founded by Victoria

Eric. She's mission is and I quote, to raise awareness

for student athlete mental health and address the stigma within

sports culture.

Then upon it educates and empowers student athletes to speak

out about the mental illness to normalize it.

Do not be afraid.

This is horrified by their campus captain program.

That is a branch.

I am grateful enough to be part of the campus

captain program serving as a campus Captain Atlantic University, and

our job is to sort of act as a resource

tool and just a personal our team that's gonna talk

to you when they're feeling alone.

It's kind of advocate, but the stigmatization off mental health

and student athletes all in all this high social standards

that is based on student athletes to achieve, causes all

this stress that nobody really understands.

However, hopefully mental health injury is seen as tantamount to

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