Hockey: Depression consumed David Kettle, now he wants sport to do more

...."It was just relentless, absolutely relentless. It just kept coming and kept coming and when you thought it was going away it would come harder and harder and harder and that translated for me into my sleep, I just couldn`t sleep at all.

"You do just feel so alone, you feel like no one understands."

...."I think when we talk about performance and all the components within that, you talk about your strength and conditioning, you talk about your nutrition and your tactical and technical.

"We don`t really talk about our wellbeing. And from my experience it`s really, really important.

"Wellbeing can be a life and death situation but I don`t think it`s really considered as important at the moment as other aspects of performance.....

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Bethany`s Notes: A solid read about David Kettle`s experience with depression. His quotes in the article are so spot on and depression feels like a spiral that very few people understand. He recommend a buddy system: talking with others who have gone through a similar situation and who can relate...who can communicate that it is okay not to be okay and where to seek help.