The disclosure of absences from professional sporting activities to the media is a routine and generally unproblematic part of a sporting career. However, when the reason for the absence relates to mental health concerns, players can encounter difficulties in trying to define, describe and conceptualise their own issues while attempting to maintain privacy as they undergo assessment and treatment. Drawing on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis principles and methods, this paper explores first/initial public mental health disclosure narratives produced by players and sporting organizations across several professional sports via media interviews, press statements, and social media posts. The analysis focuses on (in)voluntary accounts produced by teams or players themselves during their careers and examines the different communication strategies they employ to categorise and explain their predicament. The analysis reveals how some players provide partial or proxy public disclosure announcements (due to a desire to mask issues or delayed help-seeking and assessment), whereas others prefer fuller disclosure of the problems experienced, including diagnoses and on-going treatment and therapy regimes. The paper outlines the consequences of these disclosure strategies and considers the implications they can have for a player’s wellbeing in these stressful circumstances.

向体育媒体披露职业体育活动的缺席情况是体育事业的日常工作，通常是没有问题的部分。但是，当缺席的原因与心理健康问题有关时，玩家在尝试评估，对待和维护隐私时，尝试定义，描述和概念化自己的问题时会遇到困难。借助民族方法学和会话分析原理和方法，本文通过媒体采访，新闻发布和社交媒体发布，探讨了运动员和体育组织在多个专业运动中产生的首次/初始公共心理健康披露叙事。该分析着重于团队或球员自身在职业生涯中所产生的（非自愿）账目，并考察了他们用来分类和解释困境的不同沟通策略。该分析揭示了一些参与者如何提供部分或代理公开披露声明（由于希望掩盖问题或延迟寻求帮助和评估），而另一些参与者则倾向于更全面地披露所遇到的问题，包括诊断以及持续的治疗和治疗方案。本文概述了这些披露策略的后果，并考虑了在这些压力大的环境下它们可能对玩家的健康产生的影响。该分析揭示了一些参与者如何提供部分或代理公开披露声明（由于希望掩盖问题或延迟寻求帮助和评估），而另一些参与者则倾向于更全面地披露所遇到的问题，包括诊断以及持续的治疗和治疗方案。本文概述了这些披露策略的后果，并考虑了在这些压力大的环境下它们可能对玩家的健康产生的影响。该分析揭示了一些参与者如何提供部分或代理公开披露声明（由于希望掩盖问题或延迟寻求帮助和评估），而另一些参与者则倾向于更全面地披露所遇到的问题，包括诊断以及持续的治疗和治疗方案。本文概述了这些披露策略的后果，并考虑了在这些压力大的环境下它们可能对玩家的健康产生的影响。