Rhetorical situation

Writer

The writer of “Everyone Is Going Through Something” is Kevin Love, a professional basketball player from the US who plays for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Love’s background as an elite athlete is very significant in this rhetorical situation, and not just because his panic attack occurred during a game. As Love mentions in his essay, there has been a persistent culture of toughness associated with male professional athletes, who are often afraid of admitting to psychological struggles because they fear being perceived as weak. Love reveals that this has been factor in his own upbringing, and explains how he never believed he needed therapy before he had a panic attack which acted as a wake-up call.

Though Love does not mention this directly in the essay, it is also notable that many male athletes who do come forward with their mental issues so...