By John Affleck — 2019
Experts I spoke with for this story pointed to a couple of reasons professional athletes are particularly susceptible to mental health issues.
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Plus expert tips on how to manage each of them.
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Get fit, feel happy. Or is it the other way around?
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I began having anxiety attacks in high school. The scariest part was that I really didn’t know what they were at first. Because of my personality, which is more Type-A organized, it would have been easy to allow them to take over my life and become debilitating.