It’s rare when you see people talking about mental health, especially athletic boys. I don’t have any proof for this other than my own experience, but I imagine other have seen this as well. When I was an athletic boy I had a real disdain for mental health because my dad was diagnosed with mental illness. I thought it was a personal failing. “It was a weakness. I mean, who can’t keep their own head together?” Yet, only 5 years later I would be working through the exact same illness as my father at mental health facility near Michigan State. It is a rough thing to deal with because you have to it all alone until…

https://www.theplayerstribune.com/kevin-love-everyone-is-going-through-something/

All of a sudden a number of professional athletes are talking about their own struggles with mental health.  This small acknowledgement that mental health is something worth taking seriously is really important for all of those athletic boys who don’t have any positive examples.