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   Being Ron Artest

   angfoo:

   As somebody who works in education and comes across plenty of kids who need therapy, I admire Artest’s efforts to raise mental health awareness:

   Artest is very big on counseling. He gets parental counseling, marriage counseling, anger counseling and personal counseling. Artest is such a fan of psychiatry, he’s raffling off the $26,000 championship ring he won to pay for school psychiatry. So far, the raffle — go to RonArtest.com — has raised nearly half a million dollars.

   “When I told my mom, she got real pissed at me,” he says. “My dad, too. And my brother. And my wife. They said, ‘You played your whole life to win that and you’re giving it away?’” It befuddled his teammates, too. “I’d never do it,” says Bryant, who has five. “How f—-ing crazy is that? I’d just give them the money instead.”

   Not Ron Ron. Already, the money will pay for “at least eight school therapists,” he says. Plus, the more he talks about it, the less weird therapy becomes.

   “I needed a therapist when I was a kid,” says Artest, who was suspended every single year of his elementary school career. “I needed one real bad. I want kids to know that what they’re going through, they’re not alone.”

   Must-read article inside the crazy brain and pure heart of Ron-Ron.

   I heart Ron Artest.

   (Source: airportsandnovember)

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      As a future MFT and a total proponent for therapy, it’s so great to see therapy get more props!

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      I heart Ron Artest.

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