Life After Pro Sports Research suggests that approximately 70% of elite athletes experience post-professional career depression[1], making athletic retirement one of the most psychologically demanding periods a person can face. Researchers describe this transition as a biopsychosocial disruption[2] – a layered unravelling of structure, identity, and purpose that sport had quietly scaffolded for years. Lost goals and a fractured sense of self emerge as two of the most formidab
