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Alix Joyce shares her mental health story with The Hidden Opponent. "Drastic changes are obvious. Cut your hair, switch up your personality, even change your name — they are your decisions. It’s the subtle ones, the ones that pile and pile and chip and chip, the ones that carve you into the person you’re not even sure you’re supposed to be, that shake you the most. They happen right in front of your face, yet you don’t see them. Do they make you the person who may be close to just right?"

Aarav (RV) Guha Sarkar shares his personal experience with mental health, combined with research on the topic, as he navigates the MLS NEXT club system and the pressures that come with it.

Daniel Vasquez shares his story of losing sports and his journey down a destructive path of abuse and incarceration, and how he was able to turn his life around by addressing his mental health.