By Pat James, GoHeels.com
From the moment she began providing performance enhancement and psychological services to Carolina student-athletes in 2014 until now, Dr. Jeni Shannon has noticed how people across the country and at UNC are becoming more open about mental health.
Yet, there's still a great deal of stigma around it.
To change that, Shannon, the director of the Carolina Athletics Mental Health and Performance Psychology Program, says it's critical to continue conversations about mental health, not only on Thursday – which is World Mental Health Day – but every day.