Leaving the comfortable confines of football for a moment; there’s a stigma in the world, especially in sports, about mental health these days. Lately, the topic has been discussed more in all professions, all education levels, with all types of human beings. Finally, there seems to have been a normalization of “it’s ok to not be ok.”
Mental health, especially in young athletes in this day and age, is something that includes more factors than years or decades past. With a world that’s become a web of instant information, critique and criticism, mental health has never been playing defense harder.
