Kylee Harless
Online Editor
“We should be thinking about health in that our mental health is an everyday thing. We should deal with mental health as fitness. As mental fitness.”
“We should be thinking about health in that our mental health is an everyday thing. We should deal with mental health as fitness. As mental fitness,” said Eric Hipple, former NFL Quarterback for the Detroit Lions.
Hipple is no stranger to tragedy. Hipple travels across the country talking to college students, faculty and staff about mental health, suicide and the stigma that surrounds it. He siad suicide and mental health is something to be talked about, not avoided.
Throughout the night, Hipple talked about how mental health should be looked at the same way we look at fitness. Similarly to your body, one should work on their mental health everyday, instead of only working on it when it mental health is causing active harm.
After Hipple lost his son to suicide in 2000, Hipple has written multiple books about mental health with his co-author about the effects of depression in retired football players. He also wrote an article that was published in the April 2007 issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. In addition to his books, articles and talks, in 2006 he received the Presidential Citation from the Amerian Psychological Association.
Hipple said that our mental health is nothing more than who we are and how we take care of ourselves. Taking care of ourselves will allow for better mental health. If we do not, then our mental health will suffer, just like our bodies would if they were not taken care of.
Eric finished his talk by stating we should use trauma to progress ourselves and view it as a chapter in a book.
Eric Hipple, former NFL Quarterback for the Detroit Lions, is no stranger to tragedy. Hipple travels across the country talking to college students, faculty, staff talking about mental health, suicide, and the stigma that surrounds it. He explains that suicide and mental health is something to be talked about, not avoided.
Throughout the night, Hipple talked about how mental health should be looked at the same way we look at fitness. Similarly to your body, one should work on their mental health everyday, instead of only working on it when your mental health is causing you active harm.
After Hipple tragicly lost his son to suicide in 2000, Hipple has written multiple books about mental health with his co-author about the effects of depression in retired football players. He also wrote an article that was published in the April 2007 issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. In addition to his books, articles and talks, in 2006 he received the Presidential Citation from the Amerian Psychological Association.
Hipple says that our mental health is nothing more than who we are and how we take care of ourselves. Taking care of ourselves will allow for better mental health, if we do not, then our mental health will suffer, just like our bodies would if they were not taken care of.
“To have a mental health issue you need to have more than one sympotom for more than two weeks,” said Hipple.
Eric finished his talk by stating we should use trauma to progress ourselves and view it as a chapter in a book.
