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In the wake of the tragic suicide of Washington State quarterback, Tyler Hilinski, athletes, coaches, and sports fans alike expressed their heartfelt condolences to family and friends of the football star via social media. While Hilinski’s death went viral and came as a tragic shock to the sports community, it also brought up a subject that is hardly talked about, if at all, in our society: the mental health of student-athletes (and athletes in general, for that matter). As a

Dear Younger Linds, I know life may seem so incredibly hectic right now and that the sun may never seem to shine. Your biggest fear right now is school. I know it feels as if the storm may never pass. The only thing worse than knowing where you belong is knowing where you don’t. You wake up everyday dreading the hour long bus ride. An hour can be a long time; especially when you spend that hour thinking that you’re invisible, thinking nobody cares, thinking nobody understands

1. Your mental health is IMPORTANT All aspects of your health are important but I really want to emphasize your mental health. It is extremely underrated and gets tossed to the side a lot of the time but it is so critical to your overall well-being! Just like with any other realm of health, I want you to remember that there are good days and bad days. Some days you feel on top of the world and other days you’re under the weather. This happens with mental health too and it is

I was terrified of going on any kind of medication for my mental health. What if it changed my personality too much? What if I lost my ability to be creative? I’ve always felt I have a heightened intuition and though it may sound weird or some people, I was afraid I’d lose that part of myself by going on anxiety medications. I remember watching that teenage horror movie, Prom Night, and developing this idea that anxiety medications make you a zombie when Brittany Snow’s chara