Dr. Shawn Eagle
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I kind of spiraled in anxiety and depression.
I can't believe this is happening.
It's my last season.
And it took an athletic trainer, our team's athletic trainer, to pull me aside and say,
You're not the same person right now.
You're acting differently.
And we know concussions can do this.
And let's figure out a plan.
And it's something that, you know, after the fact seems so obvious that a concussion was causing the anxiety for at least three or four days.
I was shocked.
I was losing it.
I wasn't sleeping.
I didn't understand what was happening.
And so thank God for him.
His name was Eric Winters.
He was an athletic trainer at Denison University.
And that stuck in my mind.
And I wanted...
Even through our time in Texas Tech, we didn't have very much at our disposal for concoction.
Learning about that more at Texas Tech and then more as a research assistant with the military, or focused on military populations rather, that led me to where I am today.