Elite sport is gradually waking up to widespread mental health issues | Sean Ingle

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Administrators are arriving at a better understanding of the extent of anxiety and depression among top sportspeople and a finger is pointing at social media

On Friday night the NBA’s commissioner, Adam Silver, made a statement that was both shocking and profound: many of the league’s players, who have an average salary of $7m a year, were “truly unhappy”. He told the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference: “The outside world sees the fame, the money, all the trappings that go with it, and they say: ‘How is it possible they even can be complaining?’ But a lot of these young men are genuinely unhappy.

 

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LeonMckenzie1

Yes those million dollar contracts can make a guy depressed.

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