More athletes coming forward with depression issues

Football standout Jake Weiss missed a chunk of his senior season at Roosevelt High School because of a head injury suffered in a game. It was frustrating, sure, but hardly embarrassing. Yet that’s how he described the prospect of making known the depression with which he’d been dealing. So he kept it a secret for three years. He needed to get a handle on the disease before he could tackle the …

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More athletes coming forward with depression issues

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