Any other high school athletes having a hard time?

[Anonymous]

My daughter is an 8th grade softball player who was playing up on her high school's JV team. Also plays travel, and all of that is gone. She suffers from depression and anxiety, and it's always under more control in the fall / spring when she can be outside playing ball. This is very hard, plus adding on missing all the 8th grade stuff, having military friends who are supposed to be moving at the end of the academic year across the country, etc. She hasn't been in the company of anyone besides us and our dog for the last two weeks, and she's been okay but I am constantly watching / checking on her. She's had suicidal thoughts before, so all of this solitary time (besides facetime and snapchat) is making me very anxious myself.

[Anonymous]

Our youth sports facility closed due and they had to lay off all the employees last week. The coaches are still asking us to consider paying monthly tuition, essentially to "float" the coaches and the business until it reopens.

Has anyone else been asked for similar support in other sports?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD is a freshman. She plays three sports but basketball is her top sport and she plays varsity. For her sports are a huge stress reliever and she thrives on competition not to mention close friendships with her teammates.

A cancelled season and the possibility of not going back to school this year really has her down. She’s keeping up with school and running with DH but I know she misses her life. And this is just the first week.

I don’t know how to help her through this.

OP again. DD found DH’s old P90X DVDs and started the exercise program full tilt. I think it’s really helped her mood. And she still runs every morning with DH. A couple times she asked Me to bike alongside her so she could do sprints.

She’s been video conferencing with her coach and teammates which is not the same but helps. And she’s still doing her schoolwork.

It was a better week but we’re just at the start of this so who knows.

[Anonymous]

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Everyone is sacrificing something, OP. Some have lost their jobs. Some cannot get important medical treatment. Doctors and nurses are risking their lives.

My teen is missing out on AP prep and may not have his extra time accommodation honored by the College Board, which would significantly lower his score. Small potatoes, compared to what others are going through.

Thanks for the "don't complain, someone else has it worse" scold. No kidding. Plus I'm sure you've never every complained or expressed anxiety about anything, huh?

OP, my DS (HS junior) had his major soccer tournament cancelled where a couple of college coaches had said they were coming to watch him play. He's bummed, I'm bummed. We're moving on to focus on summer ID camps, but not sure if they'll be on either. And it's hard on us as parents since we don't know how to guide them on it.

The reason I'm scolding is that I'm a scientist and saw the writing on the wall in early January, like many of my colleagues. We have been screaming blue murder for months, nobody has listened. And now many thousands of people are going to die.

So instead of whining about small things (you think I don't have my share of small things to complain about? Of course I do), we should be a little more stiff upper lip in the face of the horror that is about to be visited on the USA.

In two weeks, more people on DCUM and in your community will start to die. I don't know if you guys realize that.
It won't be posts about athleticism. It will be posts about people you know, losing their lives.

Oh FFS - have you browsed DCUM lately? Fear, anxiety, despair about coronavirus is dominating every forum. You don’t think we “realize” the frightening reality we’re all living in right now? Do you really think it’s more constructive to focus on the fact that people are going to die, people we know and love, than how to help our teens who are struggling? You may be a scientist but you are ill-equipped to support one’s mental health through a crisis.