The Negative Effects Of Medications In Sports

The negative impact mental health has had on student-athletes is a continuous problem across the globe and has been a topic of interest in the research world for many years. The stigma behind mental health have lead to symptoms of depression and anxiety, reluctance to seek help, the sense of helplessness and loneliness and many more. In a student-athlete, these stress levels are brought upon the individual for multiple reasons. For example, student-athletes have to accomplish a certain degree of success both on the playing field and in the classroom (A.P. , Deitrick, J.M. , & Reynolds, E. (2016). Maintaining a required average and playing time can become not only physically but mentally exhausting. This literature review will discuss the barriers and facilitators to mental health in student-athletes and how the stigmatization of those student-athletes who suffer from a mental illness have an impact on their everyday life.

Sports—which involve emotion, competition, cooperation, achievement, and play—provide a rich area for psychological study. People involved in sports attempt to master very difficult skills, often subjecting themselves to intense physical stress as well as social pressure. research has expanded into numerous areas such as imagery training, hypnosis, relaxation training, motivation, socialization, conflict and competition, counseling, and coaching. Specific sports and recreational specialties studied include baseball, basketball, soccer,

When an athlete faces a physical injury whether that be in a competition or practice, a team of highly certified professionals, which typically includes a first responder, physio therapist, and in some cases even a doctor, rush to the aid of the injured athletes. Diligent care and therapy goes into recuperating the athlete so they can make a complete recovery and return to their sport. On the contrary, when an athlete faces an injury from within, its been taught that it is the “athletes problem” and that they need to “toughen up”. But mental health problems can be just as damaging to an athlete’s career and athletes are left to suffer in silence. It is well known that athletes undergo tremendous physical strain and stress, these concerns

In America, the sports industry is one of the largest and most powerful country; whether the sport is football, baseball, basketball, or any of the other sports the country has. Recently reports and documented cases have risen involving some of these sports’ greatest athletes, as well as current players, dealing with concussions (Famous sports concussions, 2012). Numerous athletes, some of them being the sport’s highest profile players, were found to have several mental illnesses and diseases, that have been attributed to head injuries sustained while they were playing their sports. The biggest and most predominant of these injuries is concussions. They can cause not only immediate issues, but also a lifetime of health

A number of prominent athletes have recently experienced a 'fall from grace,' because of the revelation that they used performance-enhancing drugs. Perhaps the most famous example of this phenomenon is Lance Armstrong. In an advertisement for Nike that his former sponsor now no doubt regrets, Armstrong is shown asking the viewer "what am I on? I'm on my bike, busting my ass six hours a day." Professional cycling is often cited as one of the sports in which doping is most endemic to its subculture, however a number of professional sports have been embroiled in drug scandals. Because of the many revelations about the number of baseball players who used steroids to get their record-breaking statistics, the 1990s are often called the 'steroid' era of baseball. The Olympic track and field star Marian Jones was stripped of her medals, after finally admitting to the use of performance-enhancing drugs (Lardon 2008). "Despite the health risks, and despite the regulating bodies' attempts to eliminate drugs from sport, the use of illegal substances is widely known to be rife. It hardly raises an eyebrow now when some famous athlete fails a dope test" (Savulescu, Foddy, & Clayton 2004).

In the second journal by (Rapp, 2006) the researcher conducted a test by which, “Individual responses of injured athletes varied from those who took injury in stride to those who required psychiatric intervention.” Rapp (p. 9) This seemed to significantly designate the further examination of the importance of not simply “Assuming mood disturbances nor overlooking a serious emotional response in the injured athlete.” Rapp (pg.13) Therefore, the athlete can be diagnosed in a clinical sense with the appropriate testing to confirm or rule out the need for psychiatric help at the time

Many athletes are particularly trusting with regards to performance boosters because many of them are desperate to be the best at their respective sport. At the professional level, where athletes must perform well to keep their jobs, many are desperate to do whatever it takes to continue to compete. In their book Death in the Locker Room, authors Bob Goldman, Patricia Bush, and Ronald Klatz discuss this immense pressure that athletes feel to use these drugs. These authors explain how players often place this pressure on themselves because of an overwhelming desire to become famous, adored athletes. To investigate this urge, Goldman and his colleagues performed a study on 198 elite athletes, where the authors asked the athletes if they

Carol Seheult, a sports psychologist was noted saying, “When I see professional footballers they insist on complete secrecy because they fear it could get back to their manager, they worry that they'd be seen as wimps” (Dunning, 2003). The social constructs of male athletes and how they should be strong and not emotional has allowed the community to scrutinize athletes who don’t keep up with this manly image. Athletes continue to play in sports regardless of their mental health issues as they are afraid to speak on the issues themselves. This leaves many male athletes unable to get the help they need or the time they need to recover. Instead they continue rigorous training regimes that only add stress to already present problems. This is an image that has been constructed as a society and is one that require athletes to push themselves to victory even though they are suffering from mental illnesses. The social constructs created by society prevent many athletes from receiving the hep they need and is a problem that can only be solved as a

As I reflect on my life, I can’t imagine my life without sports. Sports is my passion and the one thing that keeps me sane and happy. This assignment has showed me the love I have for sports and how it consumes my whole life. My whole life revolves around it. As I am sitting down writing this paper, I am listening to an interview about a former Florida Atlantic University football player who is now dealing with life after the NFL. His name is Christian Milstead, a 2015 Exercise Science and Health Promotion graduate. After the 2015 NFL draft, Milstead was invited to take part of the Green Bay Packers rookie minicamp. Unfortunately, he wasn’t one of the 300 people who made it on a NFL roster. Milstead, however, life is going great. Of course, he would love to be playing on Sundays, but he is enjoying life as a Personal Trainer Director for one of LA Fitness locations in South Florida.

In the beginning I searched for a topic that caught my eye in the book Sport in Contemporary Society by D. Stanley Eitzen called “Painkiller Abuse by Athletes and teams.” Over the years it has been shown that painkiller abuse has become a huge problem. Although it is not the only sport to abuse painkillers, it is more common in the NFL due to the higher risk of injury. Athletes that are at a higher level of competition have more pressure on them to perform a certain way. “Ray Lucus, a former

For High Performance athletes, there can be a lot riding on their results and performance in competition. If athletes develop an over-reliance on sporting success as a source of self-worth and identity, it can lead to serious emotional issues if things do not go as desired. Athletes often identify their self-worth with their ability to perform, and performance failure has been significantly associated with depression (Taylor, 2015 pg.11; Troijan, 2016, pg. 137) Athletes face many struggles and when something goes wrong it can leave them not knowing where to turn for help. They can be left with they feelings that they are nothing, undeserving, and alone. This may also exacerbate their feelings of seclusion, depression, or grief. Most athletes

This is a material world promoting material values, thus meaning that it should not be surprising to see individuals being willing to do everything in their power in order to make profits. Or should it? The sports community today is troubled by a series of athletes who have yielded to society's pressures and abandoned their principles with the purpose of taking performance enhancing drugs. It is difficult to determine if it would be normal for the masses to judge these individuals, concerning that they are actually one of the reasons for which these people have come to consider taking performance enhancing drugs in the first place. However, the only ones who can judge them are other hard-working sportspersons who have stood by their principles and who respect the idea of sport in general.

When most people think of extreme sports, they think of adrenaline junkies and risk takers, and this is simply not the case. While most people against extreme sports turn a blind eye to the medical benefits and the stereotypes put on participants, good things can come out of these activities. These gains outweigh the consequences, which makes extreme sports worthwhile. From an outside perspective it may seem that medically concerned, extreme sports would be frowned upon, but in fact, the opposite is true. John Donovan agrees, while speaking on behalf of Eric Brymer, an author of books about sport psychology, that even though extreme sports may cause many injuries and expensive hospital bills, psychologically speaking, they can “facilitate more

Athletes have become a major part of society not only in the Unites States but around the world.Athletes play a large role in shaping people’s characters and values

More and more, of our society views winning more important than itself. Success in competition brings status, popularity, and fame, not to mention college scholarships. Today’s athletes are looking for an advantage over the competition that will make them winners. Unfortunately, the drugs of today are caught up in the high stakes competition frenzy. Of this reality, teenage use of performance improved drugs is growing ever more popular. In colleges and in the professional league a lot of people are doing drugs and its ruining their health and life. Also, if some teenagers take performance drugs they are making them better than everyone else giving themselves an advantage over everyone else which is cheating, so why should they get money