Therapy IRL: Grounding Yourself Amid The (March) Madness
As someone born and raised in the Midwest who attended a powerhouse sports university (Go Blue!), I have always known that March is a time when you just can’t rely […] The post Therapy IRL: Grounding Yourself Amid The (March) Madness appeared first on Essence.
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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… As someone born and raised in the Midwest who attended a powerhouse sports university (Go Blue!), I have always known that March is a time when you just can’t rely on anything to make sense. The tornadic wins, devastating losses, and jaw-dropping finishes of the NCAA Basketball Tournament have me pulling my hair and throwing my bracket out the window every year. I mean, the tournament is named March Madness for a reason, after all.
But as a licensed clinical psychologist, I’m looking at this particular March and all of its happenings as madness for totally different reasons.
As I type, it seems that every news outlet or social media platform is drowning in a similar storm of wins, losses, and face-screwing outcomes. Whether it’s the court reversals of policy on tariffs and DEI in schools, the federal administration’s overnight declaration of war on Iran, March Madness Mental Health
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