Raising Awareness About Athletes’ Mental Health with Mark Hilinski
Beyond Addiction
Dr. Josh King welcomes you to another episode and a new season of The Beyond Addiction Show. As the football season starts, each week hordes of people sit and watch the players get to the field and perform amazing feats of physical strength and ability, but how often do people stop and think about the toll that this has on their mental health? Is their mental health considered at all? Are we paying enough attention to the emotional well-being of our athletes?
Today, Dr. King is accompanied by Mark Hilinski whose son, Tyler, a college quarterback, took his own life. Mark is sharing in today’s episode his efforts in trying to bring athletes’ mental health to the center of the scene. He talks about the foundation they set up in Tyler’s memory and the work they are doing to raise awareness of athletes’ mental health.
