By David Owen — 2014
What’s behind the condition that every golfer dreads?
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Adults with disabilities report experiencing frequent mental distress almost 5 times as often as adults without disabilities.
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Athlete burnout is a cognitive-affective syndrome characterized by perceptions of emotional and physical exhaustion, reduced accomplishment, and devaluation of sport.
What leads to burnout is too much training stress coupled with too little recovery. Training stress can come from a variety of sources on and off the field, such as physical, travel, time, academic or social demands.
Given how commonly the yips are referenced in sports, it is surprisingly misunderstood.
Anxiety and neurological factors come into play for athletes who suddenly lose their ability to perform in a way they excelled at for years.
As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.
Science is showing how immersion in nature speeds healing and acts as an antidote for many ailments.
The pandemic has stripped our emotional reserves even further, laying bare our unique physical, social, and emotional vulnerabilities.