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Grants from the Washington State Department of Commerce will fund several projects that will help people with behavioral health issues receive local treatment services.
Treatment. where do you think you could be had you not gotten help? >> i wouldn't be skiing. that's for sure. but also, i don't know if i'd be around, to be totally honest, because eating disorders take a lot of lives. >> reporter: now instead of a sponsor on her headband, she wears the logo for the emily program, the treatment center that helped get her become on track. >> i think eating disorders thrive in stigma and shame. and the taboo nature of talking about them, right? so that's why i'm talk about it right now. because it shouldn't be a shameful thing. and if you can make it out the oth...
Diggins dominated minnesota's high school ski clubs, a multi- state champion with a relentless drive for perfection. but in her senior year, the drive became all-consuming. diggins found herself in what she called a slow spiral. >> i think i felt a lot of shame and guilt and denial about the eating disorder i had. >> reporter: i find it so interesting because i think there's this idea out there that athletes are immune to eating disorders because you need to fuel your body in order to perform. that's not true. >> no. no one's immune to them. >> reporter: her family was there for her, and mom, ...
U.S. cross country skiers have taken issue with the coverage of Jessie Diggins' historic bronze medal over the discussion of her body.
The cross-country skier from Afton enters the Beijing Games with greater expectations and higher visibility after winning the first U.S. gold medal in the sport four years ago.