Emily Ryan message about mental health
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I can't lie, I haven't been a super dedicated women's basketball fan. But I have 2 girls and we started watching the women's game more and more over the past few years.
Emily is exactly the kind of person I want my kids to look up to. Someone with passion for sport, does things the right way and has humility. Super happy for her and proud of her to work through her struggles and get to a point where she felt comfortable telling her story.
Emily is exactly the kind of person I want my kids to look up to. Someone with passion for sport, does things the right way and has humility. Super happy for her and proud of her to work through her struggles and get to a point where she felt comfortable telling her story.
Like a fund specifically for assisting athletes with mental health struggles. I'm not sure where that would be best directed.
I suspect that people have been dealing with these sort of mental health struggles for as long as we have been human. The difference is we have a greater understanding of what these diseases are and more visibility into what others are dealing with than ever before.
And messages like Emily's are wonderful because they continue to spread awareness and fight stigmas that exist around mental health challenges.
Remember couple of posters mentioned that Emily seemed to lose weight last season?
Emily is definitely one of the most beloved student athletes here and it is heartbreaking to hear her story. I am glad she got help and support from the coaching staff and her teammates and she definitely will get our thoughts, prayers and support from us the fanbase.
Emily is definitely one of the most beloved student athletes here and it is heartbreaking to hear her story. I am glad she got help and support from the coaching staff and her teammates and she definitely will get our thoughts, prayers and support from us the fanbase.
Kudos to her for opening up. Mental health issues do not mean you are mentally weak. Society needs more Emily's.
I hope your kids never have any issues with their mental heath but as a heads up I have talked with countless patients parents who have said the exact same thing you have when their kids come into the ED. Often parents have zero idea what their kids are actually going through, even parents that are heavily involved with their kids lives, especially as they get into their teenage and college years.
I think for the most part posters on this board handled Emily's absence good last year. And it was confusing if you didn't know what was going on. But this is a good reminder for all of us---including myself---to remember that we don't need to know everything and sometimes there is a very good reason for a student-athlete or coach or athletic department to keep things quiet.
Well in my opinion, this was plenty brave of Emily to do this, and with her visibility I hope she can help other people tackle their issues.
She was on a flight from Denver to Des Moines with me earlier this summer. I figured she was out there training but this makes sense.
Could we at least restock Emily Ryan t shirts in the store? Looks like only youths are availabe.
Maybe even add a bit to the price and the extra goes to an appropriate charity.
It's 1,000% social media. Teens today are never not connected to their social world. In my day in the 80s when you were home for the night, unless the rotary phone on the wall in the kitchen rang, you were cut off from friends, classmates, etc. It was such a necessary break and reprieve from social and peer pressures. These kids don't have that. It can be so overwhelming, the bullying, the embarrassing stuff that might circulate about you, the rumors flying, etc., it never stops for them. And then they see the f*cking influencers and others their age posting about how perfect their lives are, so they get depressed because why isn't their life perfect too? What's wrong with them? What are they doing wrong? Of course they don't see the bad stuff or the bad days or any of the crap those influencers are dealing with because they never post about that. It's seriously f*cking toxic. We have two daughters who have gone through it and it's really, really hard.
Dove put out this campaign last year, it's a tough watch but I think it captures some of what preteens and teens are up against...
I had social anxiety and depression in college before social media was around. Guy that flies off the handle doesn't think his kids have mental issues because they're not on social media.
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My niece is in middle school and is without social media. She has had some mental struggles over these last couple years.
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My niece is in middle school and is without social media. She has had some mental struggles over these last couple years.
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Social media for this kind of thing is good.
Social media for all of toxic things anyone can find is when it's a problem.
Mental health has always been an issue that wasn't addressed and now that it's more recognized, I'm not sure if we have the tools readily available to work through it.
As I reflect on the last year or so, it was impressive how much Emily did to help others, even when she was struggling so much herself.
I didn’t think I could appreciate her much more, but now I certainly do.
I didn’t think I could appreciate her much more, but now I certainly do.
Amazingly brave. Well done, Emily.
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Percent. I quit Facebook. My life drastically took a change for the better. Didn’t care about who liked my post or anything. Kids have not been raised to be able to quit it. I feel bad. It’s addicting to see who liked your post and who thinks you are “hot”. It’s a bad deal. I’m glad my kids didn’t get addicted to it
I am glad she has been able to accept and get help. I’m sure that was very difficult for her. I’m hoping she has a fun season.
I was wondering if she was going to share her story or not. I was just happy to see her looking good with some weight gained back when she returned this fall. Glad she is feeling good enough about it to share more regarding her health.
Reminded me a little of our Cyclone cross country runner Crystal Nelson and her talking candidly about her eating disorder and depression ten years ago. Prior to Crystal dealing with and talking about her issues I remember thinking she was looking alarmingly skinny even by distance runner standards. Crystal was a heck of good runner early on but her being healthy was way more important than winning some races for ISU.
Reminded me a little of our Cyclone cross country runner Crystal Nelson and her talking candidly about her eating disorder and depression ten years ago. Prior to Crystal dealing with and talking about her issues I remember thinking she was looking alarmingly skinny even by distance runner standards. Crystal was a heck of good runner early on but her being healthy was way more important than winning some races for ISU.
