Personal Brand & Positioning
How do college basketball players deal with mental health and social media criticism?
Answered independently in 3 episodes. Every line below is verbatim from the transcript, timestamped to the moment it was said.
The short answer
What the archive says
01Athletes get flooded with DMs about points and missed threes but almost none asking how they're actually doing; normalizing 'it's okay not to be okay' is why Brevin posts about mental health publicly. source →
02College athletes have more bad days than good — Brevin's advice is that it's okay not to be okay and to speak up publicly, even if you get backlash on social. source →
03Treat social media as separate from real life; during his lowest period Brevin had to distance himself from Twitter to stop mean tweets from compounding his depression. source →
In their words
What was actually said
That's where I've had to learn. And that's where I feel like I'm a shirt and grew during my time here in Boston because obviously I got on social media. And that was whenever I was at my lowest in terms of my weight, depression, my suicidal thoughts, mental health.
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