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Mental Health – Recognize to Recover

Mental Health in Adaptive and Para Athletes

Adaptive and para athletes commonly experience mental health symptoms and disorders accompanied by unique challenges that are often overlooked or normalized due to disability stigma.

Boxed In: My Battle with an Eating Disorder as a Male Athlete

As a professional boxer, I trained relentlessly, pushed my body to its limits, and chased the dream of becoming a world champion. But there was one fight I didn’t know how to win, and I was too ashamed to talk about it: my battle with an eating disorder.

From Professional Athlete to Mental Health Advocate

As a former professional athlete for the Philadelphia Flyers — and a current mental health advocate for Pennsylvania Behavioral Health Center — I have had the privilege of using my platform to share my lived experience with addiction and mental illness.