One other issue on this front may be the culture of baseball, or more broadly speaking the culture of sports/marital arts. My only personal experience with high level sports/martial arts was in kendo (a martial art which essentially combines fencing with wrestling), where I competed in the all-Japan corporate kendo taikai in Tokyo. Essentially it's the kendo version of the baseball "industrial leagues" I guess. While training with the #1 team in the country and with numerous college teams, you quickly notice that there is a culture where "spirit" is the key--where the mind conquering the weaknesses of the body is taken as a given. I saw the same in high school wrestling when I was younger. What I saw in both sports, and what I read in the papers in the baseball world, is a clear support of the "tough it out" ideology.
The problem with this ideology is that it does not lend itself to solving a problem like mental illness "fully". As with physical injuries, players are often told to get back into the lineup while they're not fully recovered. We can see this all over the league today, but if you need an example, Berkman with the Astros is just one off the top of my head. His knee is still swollen, yet he's playing. In the case of mental illness, I suspect the pressure to return is even more intense, as there are no physical signs that can be pointed to to keep a player from returning when he isn't ready. All the more problematic, as Sandy pointed out, is our rudimentary understanding of the human mind. If someone Bradley never received adequate help before (and all indications seem to be that with the Dodgers his treatment was eventually ended while he obviously still had difficulties to deal with), and discontinued treatment before fully "cured", it's unsurprising that problems continue to crop up.
Sadly I suspect this will only continue until we change the culture of sports to say it's "ok" to be injured. Working hard and pushing one's limits are key. Breaking ourselves serves no ones interests.
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