Kevin Love opens up about panic attacks in essay

CLEVELAND– Kevin Love opened up about his battle with panic attacks on The Player’s Tribune.

In the essay titled “Everyone is going through something,” Love says that he suffered his first panic attack on Nov. 5, right after halftime in the Cavs’ game against the Atlanta Hawks. Love left the game and the team took him to the Cleveland Clinic. In the essay, he writes that there is a stigma surrounding athletes talking about their feelings and mental health.

“So for 29 years, I thought about mental health as someone else’s problem,” Love wrote. “Sure, I knew on some level that some people benefited from asking for help or opening up. I just never thought it was for me. To me, it was form of…