# @playerstribune on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DG38k-0yuSP
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/27161058-playerstribune-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-03-06T22:10:38.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Players' Tribune (@PlayersTribune) — https://gondola.cc/PlayersTribune

## Caption

Seven years ago today, @kevinlove’s story, “Everyone Is Going Through Something,” opened up the conversation on athlete’s mental health: “I’ve never been comfortable sharing much about myself. I turned 29 in September and for pretty much 29 years of my life I have been protective about anything and everything in my inner life. I was comfortable talking about basketball — but that came natural. It was much harder to share personal stuff, and looking back now I know I could have really benefited from having someone to talk to over the years. But I didn’t share — not to my family, not to my best friends, not in public. Today, I’ve realized I need to change that. I want to share some of my thoughts about my panic attack and what’s happened since. If you’re suffering silently like I was, then you know how it can feel like nobody really gets it. Partly, I want to do it for me, but mostly, I want to do it because people don’t talk about mental health enough. And men and boys are probably the farthest behind....⁠
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So for 29 years, I thought about mental health as someone else’s problem. Sure, I knew on some level that some people benefited from asking for help or opening up. I just never thought it was for me. To me, it was form of weakness that could derail my success in sports or make me seem weird or different....⁠
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I want to make it clear that I don’t have things figured out about all of this. I’m just starting to do the hard work of getting to know myself. For 29 years, I avoided that. Now, I’m trying to be truthful with myself. I’m trying to be good to the people in my life. I’m trying to face the uncomfortable stuff in life while also enjoying, and being grateful for, the good stuff. I’m trying to embrace it all, the good, bad and ugly.⁠
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I want to end with something I’m trying to remind myself about these days: Everyone is going through something that we can’t see.” (Link in bio)

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| The Players' Tribune | @PlayersTribune | https://gondola.cc/PlayersTribune | Media Company |
| Lydia Victor | @lydiahopevictor | https://gondola.cc/lydiahopevictor | Designer |

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