By Best Colleges Staff Writers — 2021
Balancing the demands of work, school, and life can be difficult, but it is critical to your overall success and mental health.
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Dropping out helped me see the lies we were sold about the college experience.
In the documentary “The Weight of Gold,” Phelps presents a stark picture of the mental wear and tear Olympians endure.
Osaka’s mental health challenges are nothing new in her isolating sport. What is new is the acceptance she’ll face—and the paths back—if she takes a prolonged break.
In the past few weeks, my journey took an unexpected path but one that has taught me so much and helped me grow. I learned a couple of key lessons.
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Through the size of her platform, however, and her decision to choose well-being over pursuit of a Grand Slam title, Osaka offers the promise of bringing mental health awareness—both inside and outside of sports—to an entirely new level.
Michael Phelps, the most decorated athlete in Olympic history with 28 medals, has acknowledged that after the 2012 games, his longtime depression was so overwhelming he thought about killing himself.
She looked for all the world like a woman who could not be cowed. And then just when her many detractors thought she was out for good, she pulled herself back in.
“I should have quit way before Tokyo.”
More athletes are reporting mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, psychiatric conditions and eating disorders.
Our tendency to work too much is neither arbitrary nor sinister: it’s a side effect of the haphazard nature in which we allow our efforts to unfold.