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Why do you love the sport that you play?

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No court. No charges. No solution. In that moment, my university decided that standing for student athletes was more valuable than standing for the victim.

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You’ll think back to when times were as simple as that sport being your life and nothing else mattering.

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You can’t see depression like you can see a broken arm. You can’t touch anxiety like you can touch a sprained ankle. You can’t see mental illness so we pretend it isn’t there, we pretend that for a few hours a day that it isn’t there, but it is. It’s there and it’s real.

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We’re used to doing things we hate. But we still have to do it anyways, so we’ve become pretty good at faking it until we make it.