{"id":1680,"date":"2013-06-20T00:22:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T07:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:58:14","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T16:58:14","slug":"football-players-depression-and-bipolar-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/football-players-depression-and-bipolar-disorder\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Players, Depression and Bipolar Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A few years ago I decided I wanted to talk to professional football players about bipolar disorder and depression. There is a rookie camp every year where they offer\u00a0 support around relationships, money, media pressure, getting along as a team, etc etc. I thought- I should go in there and tell them what it’s like to have bipolar disorder and depression and how they could see the signs in themselves and others.<\/p>\n

Here is what I heard from people- “Julie, pro sports guys don’t want to talk about depression! They will never listen to the word bipolar! That’s for human resources!”<\/p>\n

I heard the same thing when I went into Nike and talked about my ideas.\u00a0 As always, society is way behind the curve when it comes to mental illness- here is an article that proves this 100%-\u00a0 It’s not a positive article as you can imagine- so if you’re depressed, skip it and read it when you feel better- but if you want to see the reality of professional sports- this describes it.<\/p>\n

Only a few are ill- just as only a few of us are ill compared to the 300 million who live in the US. But wow, when we get ill, it’s pretty terrible!<\/p>\n

Click here <\/a>read\u00a0the \u00a0Yahoo Sports article on the topic.<\/p>\n

What ideas do you have to help the sports world make changes?<\/p>\n

Julie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A few years ago I decided I wanted to talk to professional football players about bipolar disorder and depression. There is a rookie camp every year where they offer support around relationships, money, media pressure, getting along as a team, etc etc. I thought- I should go in there and tell them what it’s like to have bipolar disorder and depression and how they could see the signs in themselves and others.<\/p>\n

Here is what I heard from people- “Julie, pro sports guys don’t want to talk about depression! They will never listen to the word bipolar! That’s for human resources!”<\/p>\n

I heard the same thing when I went into Nike and talked about my ideas. As always, society is way behind the curve when it comes to mental illness- here is an article that proves this 100%- It’s not [ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11365,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/11365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bipolarhappens.com\/bhblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}