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It felt like there was a period of time when I just wasn’t really identified with anything, like I didn’t know who I was, i just had such a struggle [with] being normal. It was way bigger than sport. It was just like: oh my gosh, I just … want to be normal again.
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I’m one of the very lucky and blessed cases, there are so many situations where I’m just in the right place at the right time, or I met someone that works on concussions outside of the network of help that they were providing, and that person was able to help me tremendously.
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I just don’t remember anything after that, i was completely normal, and all of a sudden they put me in this psych ward.
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I would literally have these personality changes, or these dizzy bouts or vertigo, it was just really challenging to navigate all that.
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Between 2012 and 2016, I did so much work on myself to overcome that. And I really felt like, oh, I don’t think I struggle with this anymore, and I was so proud of that. And then when I got the concussions, it felt like a lot of that flooded back, i remember feeling like I’m crazy, like I’m right on the edge of insanity.
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As an athlete, you don’t want to show any weakness, i knew that there was … a lot of expectation on me at this point in my career. So I just felt like I always wanted to just live up to the expectation more from pursuing a standard of excellence, but maybe also just from my whole life being a girl in the sport.
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I’ve had young athletes I’ve had to talk to about this. You have nothing to prove. Tell them how you actually feel and never lie about your symptoms. Pushing through because you don’t want them to think you’re weak is the worst thing you can do, i am a gold medalist, and I struggle with that. So I can’t imagine a high school kid – they’re just starting the path, chasing the dream. And they don’t want their coach to think they’re weak, or their parents or their teammates.
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I wanted to come back because I love [the sport] and I want to ask the most of myself and I want to heal my relationship with wrestling and enjoy this again like I did as a little kid.
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My mom didn’t want to make him quit for that season, so she just told me to take my shoes off and jump in there. Be a dummy.
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