The article I found is called “ Mental health impacts on at-risk high-level athletes during COVID-19 lockdown: A pre-, during and post-lockdown longitudinal cohort study of Adjustment Disorder.” What the article elaborates on is how athletes were being studied and found that they had gained Adjustment Disorder or also known as AjD. As it states in the article “ AjD is a stress-response syndrome centered around preoccupation with a stressor, and the failure to adapt to the stressor. “ Basically what it means is that you become more stressed out when something unexpected happens like a pop-up event or irritating event you have to go to. AjD has symptoms in the article it mentions “ AjD is often accompanied by symptoms of depression, anxiety, impulsivity and avoidance. “ This shows how during the lockdown athletes would feel depressed since they don’t have that dopamine when they play sports. 

The video I chose to talk about is called “ Athletes and Mental Health : The Hidden Opponent by Victoria Garrick. “ She talks about herself in the beginning by saying she played volleyball at USC. She also says that she didn’t understand mental illness when she was in high school. What she believed mental illness was having family issues or being born with anxiety. Since she got to college she understood more about it. She stated that “ 1 in 4 people suffer from a mental health issue. “ She then explains how her schedule for school was overwhelming. That it was also consisted of five hour practices, exams, and school work. That her schedule is draining her well being. That saying Mental Illness is associated with being weak. Nobody wants to show that your weak so you keep grinding even when your hurting and sweating. What she exclaims in te video that “ Being a part of this culture makes it so hard for athletes to differentiate between what is hard work and what is pushing yourself too far. “ This is a very true statement. That this lifestyle is difficult. That there are point where you don’t even know which is which. This video is very helpful to know and get a better comprehension of how athletes deal with mental illness. 

Greg Johnson the publisher of the Mental Health Issues Remain on Minds of Student-Athletes wrote about a type of current issue happening now in sports. It is explaining how more and more students struggled mentally after a year of Covid-19. The author exclaims “ The data indicated rates of mental exhaustion, anxiety and depression have seen little change since fall 2020 and remain 1.5 to two times higher than identified before the COVID-19 pandemic. However, student-athletes reported lower levels of hopelessness in fall 2021 than in the first year of the pandemic. “ This showed us how being isolated from everyone made students and athletes struggle keeping themselves sane and upbeat about their life. With no interaction with anyone you began to feel this sense of loneliness. In the article the NCAA put out a survey for student-athletes and over 9,800 people responded. The survey was about where they could find possible counseling and get help with their mental health. Within the 9,800 responses 69% of women participants and 63% of men participants know where to get help. With this knowledge if they are having a bad day mentally they know where to get help. This is a big thing especially for people who don’t know who to talk to and how to start this type of healing process. Further along in the article they send out more surveys but they are questions about one another's mental health concerns, also asking if they know how to help one another with their mental issue, and lastly if they take their mental health seriously and seek help if needed.

The article that I read was kind of heartbreaking and sad showing the side of Covid that can be tragic. Dennis Dodd the writer of the article “ As another football season begins, a mental health crisis gnaws at the fabric of college sports. “ It talks about a college football player by the name of Harry Miller. He attended Ohio State University as a Center on the team. He was lucky enough to feel brave and booked a counseling appointment. Then we went into detail about his mental state and said he was close to killing himself. Saying where his mental health is rough. The man he went to go see is named Ryan Day. Ryan Day is the coach of the college football team. His coach was concerned about Miller and wanted to know where he was mentally. For instance, in the article “ A combination of rapidly converging issues -- COVID-19, politics, inflation, class disparity among them -- has brought society to its knees in recent years. “ This is showing that there is more to the issue than before. In college this is where you build your personality and you as a person. But having these types of issues you end up raising the amount of stress you can have. This can lead to rising numbers of depression and anxiety cases. Even social media can have an impact on your mental health. After getting out of quarantine there were a lot of people watching sports again and even more exposure to athletes in college playing their sport. With this amount of spotlight on them there could be more pressure on them to perform right without mistakes. With this amount of pressure and stress to do good it can overwhelm them and make them prone to having more anxiety about the game. Sports can be a distraction but if you're playing competitively it can affect your mentality. 

The video that I chose to talk about is a TedxTalk. The title of the video is “ Student Athletes Need to Talk About Mental Health.” The person that spoke about this topic is named Mya Schnader. What she exclaims in the video is that mental health is very important especially to student-athletes. In her eyes there are three leading causes to starting an unhealthy mentality which are having an injury, emotional stress, and physical strain. In her words this can lead  “ student-athletes at a higher level for anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts. “ Student-athletes' well-being can be majorly affected by this and it shows how it can make you think in a negative way. Mya talks on how it can be difficult to see how hurt people are. That by your mentality hurting and having pain you can start to not play the sport you used to love playing. That the only reason you can decide to keep playing is by your family and friends doing so much for you like sacrificing their time and money to come watch you play. This could be the only reason you play the sport you play is so you don’t disappoint them by not playing. This can have an impact on your mental state and way of thinking for yourself. That 35% professional athletes have struggled with their mental health at some point in their career. Mya talks about how far mental health has come before and after the pandemic. That there were issues with student athletes' mental state before the pandemic. But after the pandemic the number of people with concerns with their mental health have got way higher. What she states is “ Studies have found that mental health concerns are 150 to 250 percent higher than they were historically reported and this is all pre pandemic it’s gotten worse since. ” This shows how important your mental concern can actually be. People may say just to “walk it off” but it could be more than that. Mya shows us how having trouble sleeping, sense of loss, and depression can make day-to-day life seem difficult to do.