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Alabama's Javion Cohen opens up on mental health, says he spent month in rehab facility

Alabama offensive lineman Javion Cohen revealed in an Instagram post on Tuesday that he spent the past month at a rehabilitation facility in Massachusetts for mental health reasons.

"[T]he pressure we feel as athletes is insurmountable and can be too much at times," Cohen wrote in his post. "[I] don't want to focus on the bad though, [I] want to shed light on the good that has come of this."

The biggest lesson he learned at Herren Wellness, Cohen wrote, was that "it's okay to not be okay but it is not okay to not say you're not okay.