Athletes’ mental health is becoming increasingly popular. Mental health can be defined as “a person’s condition regarding their psychological and emotional well-being.” Mental health can affect how individuals feel, act, or think. This is becoming a controversial topic in the sports industry. As someone studying in this field, I find this topic extremely important. Athletes struggle with all kinds of mental health disorders, but the following are the most popular: anxiety, depression, social, and body. These athletes are asked every single day to compete at the highest level and compete for their fans. However, the pressure builds up on athletes and causes them to fall apart. In today’s world, you are seeing more athletes stand up for mental …show more content…
He tells the readers about his experiences during the war. Sergeant Price described how they had to shoot dogs because they were eating human corpses. This took a toll on his mental health, but so did many other experiences. As he gets home, his experiences from the war start to impact his day-to-day life. He finds that he and his wife are uncomfortable around each other. He said, “I’d worn body armor and kept a rifle slung across my body. I hadn’t felt anything like her in seven months. It was almost like I’d forgotten how she felt, or never really known it, and now here was this new feeling that made everything else black and white fading before color” (Klay, 2022). He is also uncomfortable because he does not have his armor or gun with him, which causes him to become frightened when roaming the city streets. He said, “In Wilmington, you don’t have a squad, you don’t have a weapon. You startle ten times checking for it and it’s not there” (Klay, 2022). It doesn’t make sense to him that he can roam the streets and be safe back home. Furthermore, he also struggles with his dog, Vicar. He said, “I wanted Vicar around, but I couldn’t bear to look at him” (Klay, 2022). He struggled to look at his dog because of his experience with dogs during the Iraq War. These few details show the lingering effects that the war had on him. Ultimately, the war took a toll on his mental health and left him with post-traumatic stress disorder