From The Players’ Tribune, written by Mardy Fish:

“And through it all, I just kept having these … thoughts. This anxiety. I became consumed by this exhausting, confusing dread.  And the attacks just kept … getting … worse.”

American tennis star and courageous competitor Mardy Fish recently opened up about his relationship with anxiety.  Fish shares first-hand with The Players’ Tribune his journey through mental illness, which included a Top 10 World Ranking, on his way to mental health.  

“This is a story about how a mental health problem took my job away from me. And about how, three years later, I am doing that job again — and doing it well. I am playing in the U.S. Open again.  This is a story about how, with the right education, and conversation, and treatment, and mindset, the things that mental illness takes away from us — we can take them back.”

Former college lacrosse player and U-M faculty member Sarah Ketchen Lipson, PhD, explains (in a non-preaching way!) why quality and quantity of sleep matter, especially in college, and how companies like Red Bull are sending the wrong message to students.  

Some of the main points are below.  Check out the full Huffington Post article here.

• Lack of sleep messes with hormones that control mood and stress levels.  When you’re exhausted, it’s harder to cope with the inevitable challenges and setbacks in life.
• Research shows that getting up earlier on the weekends leads to higher college GPAs
• If you’ve been awake for 24 hours, your performance is just as impaired as if you were legally drunk