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Clearly not all comics are troubled. Many, like Bob Newhart and Jay Leno, have enjoyed long marriages and relatively quiet lives. But plenty of others, like John Belushi and Chris Farley, died as the result of addictions. No one has studied the mental health of comics specifically - it's pretty hard to get celebrities to agree to answer a nosy mental health survey - but "there's a high rate of mood disorders among performers in general," says Andrew Leuchter, a professor of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles who has treated comics. "This is a high stress...
...like any victims of trauma or shock, these youngsters never quite shake the mental and medical legacy of their early illness. They know their victory comes at a price, and science won't let them forget. With every new study of childhood-cancer survivors, evidence of the lingering health dangers from their treatments--heart disease, secondary cancers, cognitive deficits--continues to mount. "Some- times I feel like a walking time bomb," says Dyer...
...this point in my career, I’m not a rookie,” he said. “That definitely helps in terms of understanding how to approach the game from the mental aspect as well as away from the rink, meaning good nutrition, sleeping habits, and general life habits. That was possibly an attractive quality. They also got to see me play in many different situations with different quality defenses...
...That helps a player learn how to move in and out of lineups and shows mental toughness,” he said...
...future of Harvard’s best talent continues to evolve in professional hockey, the success of these three can serve notice that Harvard hockey is routinely capable of molding promising freshmen into players with the skills and mental agility to follow Donato’s professional example...