Before runner Alexi Pappas competed at the Rio Olympics, she had never heard of the post-Olympic blues. "This was 2016, and so it wasn't very common for people to be open about their mental health," she says. In retrospect, she says she'd seen her teammates struggle mentally after previous Olympics, but she never connected the dots. So when Pappas made the Greek team to compete in the 10,000 meters, she only focused on the race. In fact, "I was instructed not to think about the moment after," she says. And she didn't think she'd need to. "Growing up, I was like, 'If I could be an Olympian, I will be happy forever,'" she says. Yet despite a successful race, in which she set a national recor
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