In my role as a high-performance mindset coach, I do not diagnose and treat mental illness. That being said, I always tell people that I put my mental health hat on because of my background as a psychiatrist and because I understand the importance of taking care of your mental health for both sport and life. Today, more than ever, high performers are coming out and talking about the depths of their mental health struggles. Simone Biles, one of the great athletes of our generation and possibly the greatest female athletes in some ways to ever live. backed out of her competition at the Olympics after she had a very difficult vault. She has described many reasons for her recent mental health challenges—and the Olympic spotlight most likely created the perfect storm for her. When I saw her vault performance, I immediately thought of the term called the yips. The yips is a complex disorder, some mental, some physical, and yet we don't completely understand them. But it is a very difficult thing when a high-performer gets the yips. Essentially, one cannot do routine physical skills that they've done for most of their lives. When you can't do something that you've done forever, and that you've done thousands if not more than ten thousand times it can be devastating mentally and emotionally. When you're a gymnast and lose these abilities in can lead to serious injury. The yips have even ruined careers. It is just a great reminder to not rush to judgment about Simone or anybody else as we never truly know what somebody else is going through.

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