U.S. Athletes Need Better Mental Health Care

....“I think that’s the biggest burden on American sport culture,” says Brent Walker, an executive board member with the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. “I’ve heard repeatedly from professional and elite athletes how they don’t want to admit having to having a weakness—mental [illness] being one of those.”.....
....“Probably 75, 80, 90 percent of athletes coming off an Olympic Games go through some kind of post-Olympic depression. And that’s something we have to be able to figure out and help people get through,” Michael Phelps recently told David Axelrod in a podcast interview.....   ...more

Bethany`s Notes: In a country that does not have direct government funding for sports (unlike Canada and the UK), how do you think US elite/professional athletes should receive help for mental illness? Should the governing association play a role? The USOC?