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Opening up about cricketers’ mental health with psychiatrist Dr Hassan Mahmood. Episode #458
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English - December 11, 2020 14:56 - 14 minutes - 9.51 MB - ★★★★ - 45 ratingsScience Health & Fitness Medicine medicine health interviews bmj debates conference roundtable british medical journal Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this week’s podcast, we are joined by Dr Mahmood to discuss how we can support the mental health of elite cricketers. Dr Mahmood is a psychiatrist based in Birmingham, England, who recently authored a chapter about mental health emergencies in cricket in a new textbook, Case Studies in Sports Psychiatry. In this 15-minute podcast, Dr Mahmood explores mental health screening, the difference between sports psychologists and psychiatrists, and how cricket can learn from other sports to improve the wellbeing of all athletes.