MENTAL HEALTH – Hearing that two legendary athletes have totally “cracked” or “let go” is distressing.
There is such a taboo around mental health – we share its strain, but never its psychological pain, sadness, anxiety, panic attacks – that doing it publicly, in front of the whole world, seems to me the opposite. of a flaw.
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This is what courage can also look like.
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Force to break the taboo
What strength. To say that things are wrong when society insidiously forbids us to do so. Remember that sportswomen are not super heroes, but human beings.
Feel the monstrous pressure you take on your shoulders when an entire country is counting on you to remind it to love itself or what it’s worth, when you struggle with your own inner dilemmas.
Not to mention personal stories, which are part of our identities, but which are also not the limit of what we can become.
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It’s OK not to be OK
We can only learn what Simone Biles went through without ever fully understanding it. (If you’ve never seen the “Team Usa Gymnastics Scandal” doc on Netflix, now is the time.)
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We can only read Naomi Osaka share her doubts without ever living them.
But we can say thank you if their trials resonate, remind them that they owe us nothing and remember that supporting those we love when things are not going well can mean showing empathy, showing that we are there, do not judge and repeat that it is OK not to be OK.
This permission at certain times of our lives is worth gold and a thousand medals of the same metal.
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The silent revolution – Ed. Marabout” width=”250″ height=”370″ src=”https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/610124e0260000d0845241bd.jpeg?ops=scalefit_720_noupscale”/>See also on The HuffPost: Support for Simone Biles multiplies after her withdrawal
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