On March 6th, basketball player Kevin Love's essay Everyone Is Going Through Something was published on The Players' Tribune website. I'm not someone who really cares much for sports, but I'm a huge supporter of mental health.

Love talks about mental health, but also the stigma around it; especially for boys and men. "You learn what it takes to "be a man." it's like a playbook: Be strong. Don't talk about your feelings. Get through it on your own." Mental health doesn't discriminate. Whether you're white, black, a Muslim, a man or woman 43.8 million adults experience mental illness.

The way Kevin Love explains what his panic attack felt like, and how "I thought about mental health as someone else's problem...I just never thought it was for me." This whole essay is relatable and important for everyone to read. People who have mental health problems, and people who don't. It's not someone else's problem.

"It's hard to describe, but everything was spinning like my brain was trying to climb out of my head."

"You're about to die. I ended up on the floor in the training room, lying on my back, trying to get enough air to breathe."

Both of those descriptions about his panic attack reminds me of when I first had my panic attacks. I was in high school and we thought it was severe back pain. I would lie on my wooden bedroom floor and stare at the ceiling trying to regulate my breathing.

This is an essay that can help change people's perspectives on the mental health stigma. More celebrities and big figures need to talk about their personal battles with mental health. Young people look up to these people, like Kevin Love, and need to know they're not alone battling this battle.

People think other people are going to look down on you because of your mental illness. Because you have panic attacks and/or anxiety attacks. Kevin Love is human. He thinks just like we do. Just because he is a professional basketball player doesn't make him any different than we are.

"Mental health isn't just an athlete thing. What you do for a living doesn't have to define who you are. This is an everyone thing."

I think one of the most important parts of this essay is how Love handled the aftermath of this panic attack. He didn't act as if it wouldn't happen again, and as if it was nothing. Kevin Love's team helped him find a therapist to talk about his problems. He faced them.

"...creating a better environment for talking about mental health..that's where we need to get to."

Kevin Love might be a professional basketball player yet he is also human who deals with mental health like the rest of us. Like he said in the essay being public about personal mental health is a person's choice to be public about it -- but how we need to make our surroundings a place to talk about mental health.

If you haven't read his essay, give it a read.

Mental health doesn't care if you're a student, have a 9-to-5 job, or a professional basketball player. This is an essay everyone needs to read.