Read this piece on mental health by former Minnesota high school basketball player Royce White

If you're looking for a very good and smart read about mental health and how it relates to the current state of social unease, you will find it right here in a thoughtful piece by former Minnesota high school basketball player, former Iowa State player and former first-round NBA draft pick Royce White.

If you'd prefer not to think about such things or make White an easy punchline, we suppose that's your business, too.

A taste of what White — whose anxiety disorder has been well-chronicled — wrote:

Mental health is an issue that requires and amplifies our individual and collective responsibility to ourselves and others. It's a mirror that reflects who we really are — yet we keep running from our reflections. We can debate cause and effect, but the facts allow for minimal wiggle room: our most downtrodden communities are entrenched in a cycle of social dysfunction; our police employ brutal and sometimes deadly tactics in their interactions with these communities; and within the debate about who and what is right or wrong, the most significant aspect of the discussion is — as usual — absent. Our culture inspires and subsequently neglects serious mental illness in too many of its citizens. We can no longer afford to perpetuate this problem by stubbornly refusing to address it.