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Why do sports athletes suffer from severe depression/despair/anguish
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:23 pm
Some of American sports' biggest names--Serena Williams, Jerry West, Terry Bradshaw, David Freese--have suffered severe depression, anguish and despair.
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Why? They have the money, the fame, they could afford to pay their utility bills, tuition for their children/family, car payments, they have the best health care coverage.
What's wrong?
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Why? They have the money, the fame, they could afford to pay their utility bills, tuition for their children/family, car payments, they have the best health care coverage.
What's wrong?
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Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:24 pm to mountaintop
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Why? They have the money, the fame, they could afford to pay their utility bills, tuition for their children/family, car payments, they have the best health care coverage.
Money and fame don't buy happiness. The specific reasons for depression vary person to person.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:24 pm to mountaintop
Sometimes people spend too much in their own head measuring themselves against impossible standards and it drags them down over and over.
Some of the most successful people have some of the most impossible standards for themselves.
Some of the most successful people have some of the most impossible standards for themselves.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:25 pm to mountaintop
Money doesn't buy happiness and/or fulfillment
Also, those types have pressures and temptations that we could not understand
Also, those types have pressures and temptations that we could not understand
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:32 pm to mountaintop
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Why? They have the money, the fame, they could afford to pay their utility bills, tuition for their children/family, car payments, they have the best health care coverage.
if you're actually asking this question and phrasing it like this, you'll never understand. Sad.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:36 pm to mountaintop
They get cancer, heart disease, MLS, diabetes too.....all the diseases.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:39 pm to mountaintop
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Why? They have the money, the fame, they could afford to pay their utility bills, tuition for their children/family, car payments, they have the best health care coverage
Money can take the stress out of certain things, like paying rent, feeding yourself, etc., But sometimes negative thoughts fill that empty space.
When I had money I was probably the worst version of myself, and I knew it, thus adding to the avalanche of depression.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:40 pm to mountaintop
I don’t really see the correlation you’re trying to make
A ton of people of all walks of life suffer from depression.
A ton of people of all walks of life suffer from depression.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:43 pm to mountaintop
I don't get the assertion that money cures all ills.
it pays for everything but your own mental well being.
depression isn't limited to poor folks.
it pays for everything but your own mental well being.
depression isn't limited to poor folks.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:45 pm to mountaintop
Because it’s not a state of mind but a medical condition.
Forget who I was reading about recently, but the more success they found usually made them more depressed because they didn’t understand how it was not making them happier.
Forget who I was reading about recently, but the more success they found usually made them more depressed because they didn’t understand how it was not making them happier.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:50 pm to BuckeyesAndBulldogs
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Forget who I was reading about recently, but the more success they found usually made them more depressed because they didn’t understand how it was not making them happier
This is a salient thought. Wondering why you're not happy and not being able to solve that puzzle is maddening.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:55 pm to mountaintop
Probably a combination of thinking their feelings are more important than others' while also having a massive platform to bitch.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:56 pm to mountaintop
They have money, fame, often the admiration of millions of fans worldwide...but at the end of the day they’re still just people just like you and I and they deal with some of the same struggles we do.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 6:58 pm to mountaintop
Their IQ averages single digits.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 7:00 pm to mountaintop
I can totally see it on retirement. You spend the early part of your life dedicated to your craft that you make a career, but unlike most people, you can't do that through old age (except for golfers). So, you're young, the spotlight is gone somewhat, the money doesn't come as easy, and you have the rest of your life to try to find something to fulfill yourself. That has to be a mindfrick. I find myself thinking a lot, what does a guy like Allen Iverson or Terrell Owens do every day now?
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Posted on 7/9/18 at 7:01 pm to kywildcatfanone
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Their IQ averages single digits.
Are you suggesting people with higher IQs don’t deal with depression and the like?
I hope not. As that’d be an awful arse take.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 7:03 pm to The Egg
Money buys freedom.
Freedom is the opportunity to be happy.
That’s not to say if you’re poor, you can’t be happy. It’s just harder.
Freedom is the opportunity to be happy.
That’s not to say if you’re poor, you can’t be happy. It’s just harder.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 7:03 pm to mountaintop
3 things-
A. Yes, money alleviates certain concerns/problems.
B. Money doesn’t preclude someone from being depressed over other problems eg. failed relationships, general anxiety, etc.
C. Money probably brings about other concerns/problems that people without money don’t have
A. Yes, money alleviates certain concerns/problems.
B. Money doesn’t preclude someone from being depressed over other problems eg. failed relationships, general anxiety, etc.
C. Money probably brings about other concerns/problems that people without money don’t have
Posted on 7/9/18 at 7:13 pm to mountaintop
Money doesn’t buy happiness.
Posted on 7/9/18 at 7:13 pm to 632627
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C. Money probably brings about other concerns/problems that people without money don’t have
In a graphic representation of Biggie's words of wisdom:
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