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見えない戦い:eスポーツがついに選手のメンタルヘルスを真剣に受け止め始めた理由

The Invisible Battle: Why Esports Is Finally Taking Players' Mental Health Seriously

eスポーツ選手の7割超がメンタル不調——業界がついに心理サポートを「標準装備」し始めた背景と、見えにくいバーンアウトの実態に迫る。
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Esports has entered a revealing new phase: the psychologist is no longer an eccentric add-on, but an increasingly visible part of competitive infrastructure. In January 2026, Riot’s League of Legends EMEA Championship announced Movember as its official mental-health partner for the 2026 and 2027 seasons, promising staff training, player-only roundtables, and league-level support aimed at pressure management, healthier habits, and burnout prevention. A few months later, the American Psychological Association reported that psychologists and performance specialists are moving into esports more rapidly, and that in November 2025 Dylan Poulus and colleagues convened publishers, tournament organisers, IOC representatives, and mental-health experts to finalize nine pillars of mental-health support for players worldwide. (lolesports.com)

The urgency is not rhetorical. A 2024 perspective in Frontiers argued that esports players face a distinctive cluster of stressors: performance pressure, communication problems, interpersonal conflict, toxic behaviour, public scrutiny, overtraining, poor sleep, and work-life imbalance. Another 2024 study of 453 high-ranked players across seven team-based titles found that resilience was negatively associated with burnout symptoms, while avoidance coping was positively associated with them. Even more striking, recent research on elite Counter-Strike players reported that 25.5% showed moderately severe to severe depressive symptoms, 54.9% reported psychological distress, and 72.5% showed low mental well-being. (frontiersin.org)

What makes this contest so unsettling is its invisibility. Burnout in esports does not always arrive as a spectacular collapse; it can appear first as blunted motivation, deteriorating focus, unhealthy grinding, emotional volatility on team comms, or a shrinking life outside the game. The APA notes that mental-health difficulties can erode strategic thinking and motivation, while some psychologists working in esports now focus on sleep, exercise, intrinsic motivation, and even identity beyond a short professional career. The real psychological battle, then, is not only about winning the next map. It is about building a mind that can withstand constant evaluation, endless patch cycles, online hostility, and the crushing seduction of “just one more queue.” (apa.org)

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