College athletes are struggling. Mental health is a `Groundhog’s Day` dynamic


College athletes are struggling. Mental health is a `Groundhog’s Day` dynamic


.....Sports psychologists and researchers are seeing the effects, which are only bound to multiply as fall sports cease. A sudden loss of competition, especially if it ends a career, can be something an athlete grapples with for a while.

“This is something that we can help them get control of the volume and turn it down, but it’s still there. It’s continuing,” said Jesse Steinfeldt, a sports psychologist and professor in IU’s department of counseling and educational psychology. “For many of them, it’s a ‘Groundhog’s Day’ dynamic. A baseball kid, it may have been ‘Holy crap, my season is over,’ and that moment has passed. But now it’s ‘What do I do? What does the future look like? Who am I?’”.....

.....“I always tell them, you are in a position that no other college athletes in the history of college athletics has ever had to be in before. If you are struggling at times, just know, that makes total sense.”.....

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Bethany`s Notes: We are in a new era where no coach or administrator can say, I`ve been through that...you`ll make it through. This is new so let`s be sensitive to those student athletes who are struggling.

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