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Season 5 Ep 7 — Mental Health Disorders in Ultra Endurance Athletes With Jill Colangelo

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The Prevalence of Mental Illness in Alternate Athletes

The more you exercise, the more likely you were to have a mental illness or risk for mental illness. The data went from under 10 hours per week to anyone who was doing anything from one to nine hours per week. And then there's so many other little pieces of the data that were really compelling. For example, like the most at risk, let's say, for eating disorder without prior diagnosis,. which means these are people who tested like that had risk for eating disorder but did not have it because they weren't meant in this setting. Right? There was a question on this PHQ that asked a question about suicidal thoughts and what's sort of distressing about this is; we're

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