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A comprehensive examination of the mental health challenges that
elite athletes face in America’s most popular sports. Athletes
that compete at a high level—whether in professional, college, or
Olympic sports—face numerous mental health challenges as they
strive for perfection and ultimately victory in their sports. And
while mental health awareness for athletes is better than it once
was, efforts to hide the existence of these mental disorders and
challenges remain well-ingrained. In The Burden of Sports, John
Weston Parry examines the mental health and emotional well-being of
elite American athletes generally, as well as in relation to
spectator sports propaganda, the legal system, politics, and the
effects of the Covid pandemic. This book covers mental health
conditions that any elite athlete may encounter, from depression
and anxiety to substance abuse and concussion-caused brain damage,
to the special challenges of female, queer, transgender, and
intersex athletes. Featured throughout are narratives of well-known
American athletes, including Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka, Michael
Sam, and Tiger Woods. From individual and team pressures to win and
attain sport perfection to the prejudice and ignorance of fans,
management, and corporate sponsors about mental health, addressing
the mental health of athletes and challenging the public perception
of such struggles is long overdue. This is a timely and necessary
book for readers that want to see sports change for the better in
support of America’s athletes.
Sports provide people around the world with unmatched
entertainment, from the excitement of victory to the agony of
defeat. Unfortunately, it also has become painfully clear that the
agony of sports goes well beyond athletes losing games or
competitions. Playing through concussions, the abuse of pain
medicine, the use of performance-enhancing substances, and other
health-related issues have become a constant reminder that being a
professional athlete can be as dangerous as it is lucrative. In The
Athlete's Dilemma: Sacrificing Health for Wealth and Fame, John
Weston Parry examines the health-related transgressions and
hot-topic issues in America's top spectator sports, particularly in
football, baseball, hockey, soccer, cycling, tennis, and Olympic
competitions. Parry delves into the unique health risks that
pertain to each individual sport and scrutinizes how the various
leagues and organizations have handled these issues. Controversies
and scandals surrounding elite athletes are also included,
highlighting the need for changes in how sports are governed and
regulated in the United States and worldwide. From football and
soccer players returning to the field too soon after concussions to
Olympic athletes using performance-enhancing substances, The
Athlete's Dilemma provides a broad perspective on the health risks
prevalent in sports and what can be done to reduce these risks in
the future. Accessibly written yet carefully researched, this book
will be of interest to athletes of all levels, sports fans,
academics, and health professionals.
When horrific acts of violence take place, events such as massacres
in Boston, Newtown, CT, and Aurora, CO, people want answers. Who
would commit such a thoughtless act of violence? What in their
backgrounds could make them so inhumane, cruel, and evil? Often,
people assume immediately that the perpetrator must have a mental
disorder, and in some cases that does prove to be the case. But the
assumption that most people with mental disorders are violent,
prone to act out, and a threat to others and themselves, is clearly
erroneous. Mental Disability, Violence, and Future Dangerousness
thoroughly documents and explains how and why persons with mental
disabilities who are perceived to be a future danger to others, the
community, or themselves have become the most stigmatized, abused,
and mistreated group in America, and what should be done to correct
the resulting injustices. Each year state and federal governments
incarcerate, deny treatment to, and otherwise deprive hundreds of
thousands of Americans with mental disabilities of their
fundamental rights, liberties, and freedoms- including on occasion
their lives-based on unreliable and misleading predictions that
they are likely to be dangerous in the future. Yet, due to an
exaggerated fear of violence in our society, almost no one seems
concerned about these injustices, which exclusively affect
Americans who have been impaired by mental disorders and the lack
of treatment, especially after they have been abused as children or
injured in combat. Instead, we appear to be oblivious to these
injustices or comfortable in allowing them to become worse. Here,
John Weston Parry carefully delineates the mishandling of persons
with mental disabilities by the criminal and civil justice systems,
and illustrates the ways in which we can identify and remedy those
injustices.
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