Mental Health News - MinnesotaSportsFan https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/tag/mental-health/ Minnesota sports, but different Tue, 12 Dec 2023 23:05:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=32,height=32,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-cropped-MSF-favicon-1.jpg Mental Health News - MinnesotaSportsFan https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/tag/mental-health/ 32 32 Braeden Carrington Steps Away from Gophers Men’s Basketball Team https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/gophers-football/braeden-carrington-steps-away-from-gophers-cites-mental-health/ Tue, 12 Dec 2023 23:05:02 +0000 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/?p=45668 Minnesota Gophers starting wing, Braeden Carrington, is stepping away from the Minnesota Gophers men’s basketball team to focus on his mental health, both he and the team announced on Tuesday.

Braeden Carrington stepping away from Gophers MBB team

In his statement on Twitter, Carrington expressed the need to improve in certain areas of his life, going on to tweet that he “must step away from the program and put myself first”. He does plan to return, according to his tweet.

Braeden, who is from Minneapolis and went to Park Center high school, has played a significant role in what Ben Johnson’s 2023-24 Gophers are trying to accomplish on both sides of the floor.

Related: Can 2023-24 Minnesota Gophers Make the NCAA Tournament?

Carrington having really good season

Minnesota is 7-3 in no small part due to the consistency the 6-4 sophomore has provided to the Gophers’ starting lineup on both sides of the floor, especially of late. In his 10 starts this season, Carrington is averaging of 5.8 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 1.7 assists per game, along with playing a key role on defense.

Nonetheless, it’s difficult to help the team if you’re struggling yourself. Hopefully, he can get right and we see him back on the court and in a good place sooner, rather than later.

Minnesota playing short through final non-conference games

The Gophers have three non-conference games remaining through the end of December. When the new year starts, the Big Ten basketball season resumes and life will get a lot more difficult.

They played their first of four mid-season non-conference games over the weekend without star big man, Dawson Garcia, and pulled out an easy victory over Florida Gulf Coast. He’ll miss Tuesday’s game vs IUPUI, as well.

Read all of our blogs about the Gophers men’s basketball team

]]> Tue, 12 Dec 2023 17:05:08 +0000 Minnesota Gophers Football Everson Griffen Posts Concerning Stories on Instagram and Has Allegedly Locked Himself in His Home https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/minnesota-vikings/everson-griffen-posts-concerning-stories-on-instagram-minnesota-vikings/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 16:52:50 +0000 https://www.minnesotasportsfan.com/?p=37273 Early Monday morning, Everson Griffen started posting to his Instagram stories asking for help. He also posted screenshots of text messages he was sending to “Murph”, asking for the same thing. He felt in danger. Everson also posted a video.

We do not yet know how this story ends so please keep that in mind as you go through this blog. Even the posts themselves have since been deleted. We are only now starting to find out how this has and still is playing out. Everson Griffen has allegedly locked himself in his own house, where he still remains. Authorities believe him to be alone.

The Minnesota Vikings, via Twitter, have released a statement that says they have mental health staff on-site at Griffen’s home and that they are cooperating with law enforcement. Local law enforcement has also released a statement with some of the information you read from above. Those statements are also embedded at the bottom of this blog.

WARNING: VIDEO COULD BE SEEN AS GRAPHIC BY SOME AUDIENCES

UPDATE (11 AM CT)

As of 10:45 AM CT, the Minnetrista Police department was on site at Griffen’s home and have been there since 7 AM Wednesday morning. Griffen, at that time, was still refusing to come out. The statement also says that Everson told 911 dispatchers an intruder was in his home and that he has fired a weapon. The police were not able to locate an intruder. Authorities are confident Griffen is alone inside of his house.

We will keep you updated as more comes out. Hopefully this comes to a quick and positive resolution and nobody is or gets hurt. Here are the statements from police, the Vikings and comments from Mike Zimmer.

Everson Griffen, has battled with his mental health in the past. In 2018, it reached a very public breaking point. After receiving help and getting his mind into a better space, Ev returned to football and thankfully, his time off the field since had been much less newsworthy, until today.

Let’s all hope this comes to an end in the most positive way possible.

UPDATE: 3:30 PM

The Minnesota Vikings have released another statement saying that, this afternoon, Everson Griffen ended his in-home hold out came out and “is getting the help he needs”. Rick Spielman was on site at Griffen’s house for much of the day and spoke with media in the late afternoon. You could tell the day had taken a toll on him.

Thankfully, the situation peacefully came to an end.

Eric Strack | Minnesota Sports Fan

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