SelfWork: You Get the Gist... Kudos to Athletes Challenging Stigma
The SelfWork Podcast
Margaret Robinson Rutherford PhD
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Today I’m starting some segments that will feature what’s going on in the news about mental health. I’ll touch on my thoughts and responses - So you’ll get the gist. Less than five minutes and hopefully packed with information.
Today’s You Get the Gist is about the recent athletes who’ve come forward to talk openly about their mental health struggles. Men and women we look up to for their athletic prowess and resilience – but they also have their own struggles.
Important Links:
Victoria Garrick did a TedX in California about college athletes and mental/emotional struggles
Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys recently revealed treatment for anxiety and depression
Michael Phelps produced Weight of Gold about Olympians that describes the terrible depression, suicidal thoughts and actions and identity issues after their Olympic days are over.
Kudos to them. For sure.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to self-work and to the first episode of You Get the Jist, which is a bonus episode, You Get the G. The Gist will be segments that are going to be about the news in |
| 0:18.5 | mental health, where I'll touch on my thoughts and responses to things and how you might be able to |
| 0:23.6 | apply them to your own life. So we'll both get the gist, less than five minutes and |
| 0:28.8 | hopefully packed with information. Today's Get the Jist is about the recent athletes who've come forward to talk openly |
| 0:35.7 | about their mental health struggles. |
| 0:37.3 | I'm a huge Dallas cowboy fan and one of the cowboys is one of the people I'm talking about. |
| 0:43.0 | But these are men and women who we look up to for their athletic prowess and resilience. |
| 0:48.0 | And of course, they have their own struggles just like the rest of us. |
| 0:52.0 | Some of the newer ones are Victoria Garrick, |
| 0:55.0 | who while still in college to the TEDx in California |
| 0:58.0 | about how college athletes suffer |
| 1:00.0 | through eating disorders, |
| 1:01.0 | anxiety and depression every day as their schedules are so highly |
| 1:05.2 | pressured. |
| 1:06.7 | And my Dallas cowboy, Dac Prescott, recently revealed that he'd sought help for depression |
| 1:11.9 | and anxiety as he desperately tried to cope with |
| 1:15.0 | a sudden death in actual suicide of his brother. |
| 1:18.9 | But he even found that during COVID he couldn't work out, couldn't make himself go to practice and that was before his older |
| 1:24.6 | brother died. |
| 1:26.2 | He says if you're not mentally healthy, if you're not thinking in the right way, then you're |
| 1:29.8 | not going to be able to lead people the right way. |
| 1:32.4 | So before I can lead, I'm to make sure my mind |
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