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...soccer—individual players are rightly penalized. Here, though, an unreasonable blowout has eclipsed the players’ realm and fallen onto the coach. The error with this partitioning of responsibility is seeing athletes as only beings acting physically on their fields and courts, with all of the mental processing being allotted to the coach. Of course, the coach is not on the playing surface and must work by mentally connecting and advising the players, but to think that these athletes have no conscious understanding, or more importantly control, of the sway of a game—especially when...
...book, Rivers seems pleased with the results of her own surgeries, but many who seek multiple cosmetic procedures aren't. Some patients who want repeated surgeries suffer from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), an illness defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual used by mental-health professionals as a "preoccupation with an imagined deficit in appearance" that causes distress in life. BDD sufferers may also be those who spend countless hours at the gym or abuse steroids. About three-quarters of BDD patients who have cosmetic procedures are dissatisfied with the outcome, according to a British study published...
Destigmatizing Mental Illness...
...appreciate your bringing attention to borderline personality disorder but was dismayed that people suffering from BPD were repeatedly referred to as "borderlines" [Jan. 19]. This disrespectful terminology perpetuates the stigmatization these people face--most brutally among those in the mental-health profession. There are women and men who suffer from BPD, but that is not their identifying characteristic. Michele Pilz, KEENE...
...bunches if it is able to work in the ball into the paint. Finding open looks will be especially important against Princeton, which enters the weekend with the best defense in the Ivies (59.9 ppg).With all the advantages on paper, the main challenge for Harvard should be mental. The Crimson must shake off two weeks of exam period rust, which Delaney-Smith insisted shouldn’t be an issue.“If there is a disadvantage, we’re going to get through it,” she said. More of a factor will be Harvard?...