According to the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), around one in five adults experience a mental health condition at some point during their life. Among student athletes, however, approximately 30% of women and 25% of men report having anxiety.
According to the National Institute of Health dancers and performers have higher distribution of PTSD (20.2%) compared to the normal population (7.8%). They also had a higher frequency of family members with mental illness, an inability to speak about their trauma, and more suicidal thoughts. Mitchell DeSimone, is a Certified Mental Performance Consultant, retired professional dancer. Currently serving as a mental performance consultant to NCAA teams, professional performing arts organizations, youth sport organizations and individual elite and sub-elite athletes and artists and other diverse client domains. Adjunct professor of psychology at Sacred Heart University. Published research includes topics within mental health & elite performance in the performing arts, perfectionism in sport and performing arts and eating disorders in athletes and performers. Research projects currently ongoing explore eating disorder development in elite and collegiate male athletes, parental impact on youth athlete, performing artists (performance & mental health), perfectionism in performing artists and more. He joined me this week to tell me more.
For more information: https://www.northeasthumanperformance.com/
LinkedIn: @MitchellDeSimone
Email: Mitch@NortheastHumanPerformance.com
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