08-18-2019, 02:22 PM
(08-18-2019, 02:56 AM)psychdoctor Wrote: Many people with mental illness are great athletes, leaders, artist, performing artist, and can live a relatively full life and have productive careers.
Mike Reid who was both an All Pro DT for the Bengals and a Grammy winning country western star suffered from depression. He said that back in the mid '70's when he was playing no pro athlete would ever admit to having any problems with depression. Most people did not even consider it a mental disorder. Instead it was just "weakness".
I bet that even today there are gay players in the NFL who are afraid to come out.
I am not saying westerman is dealing with anything like this at all. Just think people should consider these things whenever a young player retires.
