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Dear Athlete, If you’re reading this, that means that you are most likely a baseball player. Your mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, great uncle Steve etc. most likely received this email on your [...]

When I was fifteen years old, I was blessed with the opportunity to leave my home and pursue elite baseball. This opportunity was afforded to me by my parents who made the decision to uproot [...]

Absenteeism is one of the most noticeable symptoms of people who deal with mental health problems while holding down a job. But there’s also presenteeism, when people show up for work yet are [...]

It was fall of my 6th grade year, so I must have been twelve years old or so when I first realized something was wrong. As I laid in bed trying to go to sleep my chest began to tighten, it [...]

Written by: Jennifer Bennet (Taylor Benefits Insurance) Photo – Sydney Sims on Unsplash If you suffer from a mental health illness and have a health insurance plan from work, your athletic [...]

AAAD partnered with the Arizona Diamondbacks of Major League Baseball to put on their FIRST EVER Mental Health Awareness Day in team history! On Sunday September 15th, 2019 AAAD, the Diamondbacks [...]

My name is Andrew Clark and I currently play collegiate baseball. Despite the highs of having the opportunity to play collegiate baseball, you’ll have to overcome the lows which is the hardest [...]

When people see me, they see a hard-working undergraduate student and athlete. Many think that I have it all together because I’m on a team and/or have above-average grades. What they do [...]