I couldn't help myself on this post.
I'm sure she meant no ill will on her teammates. And it's likely that she got to a breaking point and couldn't go on. She likely right she should fight through it, but it just got to be too much. It might be also that without the crowd, her thoughts and difficulties were far more on her mind and the crowd couldn't help push her along. I do actually feel bad for her.
I was hard on her because this just wouldn't have happened 20 years ago. Something has changed in society where not only is this accepted but now is being celebrated as "brave" and there is something wrong with that.
If what CTD said in the other thread is true, and she classified herself as a quitter, that to me i says something about her as a person and owning up to things I hope that as the dust settles and some confinue to heap praise on her for dropping out, she doesn't start buying into the "that was brave" crap.
There is a growing mental health crisis, especially among teens and young women, but it's spreading among young men a well. And it's happening despite increased awareness and a lowering of the stigmatization that goes along with mental health problems. I've personally witnessed full-blown panic attacks and have seen how once they happen, that person is basically non-functional for a while.
I have my beliefs as to why our collective mental Health seems to be getting worse, despite all kinds of new knowledge and understanding, but that's for another time and place.
I reacted the way that I did originally because I saw video clips and read tweets from the blue checkmark brigade on Twitter, calling what are did heroic and brave and yahoo attributing some of her motivation to racism. And that is what I found ridiculous