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Throughout the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in mental health issues among student athletes. Student athletes report feeling overwhelmed, experiencing a lack of energy, anxiety, depression and other various mental health issues. [51] In the past year, five student athletes have taken their own lives in part due to mental ...
Stress is the process by which people perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that they find difficult or threatening. Stress is perceived as an interaction between a person and their environment.Stress can be observed in athletes under the influence of external and internal factors of the sport environment.
[1] [3] Athletes may also have trouble with emotion regulation and developing coping strategies when they are under intense stress brought on by PTSD. [4] There are many different ways to deal with the matter of having PTSD, with some therapy treatments including psychotherapy , art therapy or social engagement .
Five student-athletes have died by suicide recently, putting the onus on the NCAA to better treat mental health among its athletes. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images)
A 2013 study of high school and college football players split fatalities into two types: direct fatalities, defined as those caused by "trauma from participation in a sport resulting in a brain injury, cervical fracture, or intra-abdominal injury" and indirect fatalities, defined as those resulting from external factors such as "cardiac ...
French athletes at the Paris Olympics will be offered better protection for their mental health, with priority given to curbing online harassment and cyberbullying. France’s Sports Minister ...
The roots of periodization come from Hans Selye's model, known as the General adaptation syndrome (GAS). The GAS describes three basic stages of response to stress: (a) the Alarm stage, involving the initial shock of the stimulus on the system, (b) the Resistance stage, involving the adaptation to the stimulus by the system, and (c) the Exhaustion stage, in that repairs are inadequate, and a ...
Mindfulness-based interventions that integrate the mind and body have begun to address mental health needs among high-level athletes. Not only has mindfulness been shown to positively impact general well-being and improve performance, but it could also be utilized as a "protective factor to stress and stress-related psychological issues."