Addressing mental health, Panthers hire Director of Player Wellness


Addressing mental health, Panthers hire Director of Player Wellness


.....“I hope that everyone will see the benefit of having someone full-time on staff who the players can use as a resource. The hope is that you’ll see fewer issues or recurrences off the field. The hope is that anything that could have been taking them out of their head for the game (will be gone), because they’re talking to someone about it and working through it. … My hope is that I’ll be over-utilized,” she said.....
.....“I think that a lot of times people forget that the warriors you watch on Sunday are also human,” she said. “They can have depression. They can have high stress — and of course, the job itself is high-stress. But are they dealing with it? How are they dealing with it?…

“My goal in this position is to drop the veil of shame. There is no shame in this. Everyone in the world has problems that they’re going through. They have triumphs, pitfalls. Peaks and valleys.....

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Bethany`s Notes: Very cool to see the Panthers hiring a full-time mental wellness therapist. I see this as an ever growing field for mental health professionals.

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