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- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -2/+30I am not prone to OCD.
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -2/+30I am not prone to OCD.
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -2/+29I am not prone to OCD.
- Kronich, on 05/20/2009, -0/+19I think some sports like diving, gymnastics etc are more likely to appeal to people who are prefectionists and therefore more likely to be prone to OCD
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -1/+17Dugg for consistency.
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -1/+17Dugg for consistency.
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -1/+16Dugg for consistency.
- creamy, on 05/20/2009, -1/+8I'm prone to OGC.
- Smokeydabear, on 05/20/2009, -0/+5My experience from living with college athletes is in all facets of life, except their given sport, they were very insecure.
- Smokeydabear, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4They were actually field hockey players and cross country marathon runners. One of them was in the Olympics. So stop assuming *****.
- billraydrums, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4Precisely why I play drums. :)
- inactive, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4Are athletes prone to OCD? The question is 'are people with OCD who have the potential to become great athletes more likely to become great athletes?'
- garrettg84, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4Consistency fail =(
There is an additional line at the bottom of this first ' I am not prone to OCD.'
My OCD spacing caught that one. - Velvolver, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4I have to wonder why it would ever be necessary to run 25 miles
- RudeTurnip, on 05/20/2009, -0/+4Because you've already finished the first mile of a marathon.
- roar1234, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3Or is it that OCD makes it easier for people to dedicate themselves. I know it's helped me.
- davzie, on 05/20/2009, -0/+3I thought this said "Are Athiests Prone To OCD" to which I was going to reply that there is no evidence to prove or disprove this statement and thus I must logically conclude that no, athiests are not prone to OCD...
- gfxlonghorn, on 05/20/2009, -2/+5So your sample size is 2, and neither of these 2 people are even professional athletes.
- Ustanik, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2RTFA
- awtripp, on 05/20/2009, -2/+4or its just desire, dedication, and discipline.
a lot of people spaz out when they fail at something they love. - jaykothari, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2OCD is obsessive-compulsive disorder (DSM Axis I disorder). It is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive, repetitive thoughts and behavior. This repetitive behavior is used as a mechanism to reduce anxiety (eg. the obsessive need to count all the windows on houses repetitively)
What the athletes could have is a OCPD (obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, DSM Axis II). This is a personality disorder; a personality style characterized by perfectionism and orderliness at the expense of flexibility and efficiency of a given task. - 4degrees, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2just like the crazy man who makes a conscious effort to wash his/her hands 25 times a day in scolding hot water with a very specific bar of soap. sounds just like an obsession with exercise, or washing, or just tying your shoes a very certain way.
there is not only one kind of OCD, there are many subtle levels... - sleestakslayer, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2It's not just athletes affected by this. I have spent hours perfecting my chip-dipping technique while watching TV.
- davzie, on 05/21/2009, -0/+2Hah, I don't agree with religions views but I am more open minded than the athiests I know who have a mob-mentallity when it comes to other people's views on thing
- mitochondria, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2Weird. That is why I play drums too. I mean I like playing the drums just because it is fun but I also seek shelter from obsessive thoughts by playing as well.
- Ligeia, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2Strongly related:
http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/ar ... - inactive, on 05/20/2009, -1/+3some people have goals and ambition, it turns out. good luck being mediocre to average your entire life, Vel.
- thecat3290, on 05/20/2009, -0/+2Ya, you know me!
- n3demonic, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1Ray Allen of the Boston Celtics has a slight case of OCD (although undiagnosed)
http://www.boston.com/sports/basketball/celtics/ar ... - volcompimp, on 05/20/2009, -1/+2It's not discipline it's OCD.... Sounds like my mom talking. I was an athelete when I was younger
and once I stopped playing sports & started working + eating out everyday I ended up gaining weight.
Flash forward to 22 years old (last year), I was 180 lbs, 5'2. It took a lot of work for me to drop 36 lbs &
completely change the way I ate/lived. Just started running a little over a week ago, yesterday I passed
the 25 mile mark. It's real easy to point the finger and call it OCD when you're not the one who's
putting in the work. Exercise & diet is not a "tick"... You have to make concious decisions to change every
little bad habit you've acquired & stick w/ it (not all at once). - wo0dy, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1or that Team 3D? Ksharp..
- britoca, on 05/21/2009, -0/+1ya think?
- Julian88888888, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1I think different sports have varying amounts of OCD people....but you don't have to do a sport to have OCD....
- mmilka18, on 05/21/2009, -0/+1However, this week, MacDonald has spoken out for the first time about the real reason for her interrupted athletic career: obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD.
Elite athletes often adhere to rituals and superstitions, which may help them control anxiety (see our round-up of sports star superstitions). An obsessive nature may also keep an athlete training after others call it a day. But when do these traits veer into illness? That was the question raised on 18 May at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, in a session held to raise awareness of what may be an unrecognised epidemic.
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OCD is a form of anxiety disorder, in which sufferers are compelled to perform time-consuming behaviours to control their sense of dread. - awtripp, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1I'm just saying that OCD is a misused term. In some cases sure, but not everyone who is "obsessed" with something has the disorder.
- D3ADBOLT, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1Have you ever seen Nomar at bat?
- DforSpiD, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1Well couldn't it be either?
The repetitive behavior could just happen to involve running up and down a track a certain number of times or repetitively lifting weights. There's no reason a physical activity couldn't be the one they obsessively need to repeat in order to feel less anxious, and doing this regularly would be exactly like having a regular training regime. - edster, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1I always assumed that this was pretty obvious for the top athletes in their respective field. There are a few who are just crazily gifted, but for most its their willingness to practice 8-10 hours a day, when most others have reached their boredom threshold after a couple.
- vuke69, on 05/21/2009, -0/+1@awtripp
Three... per week, for the last 14 years. - DforSpiD, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1Isn't it more that there is no evidence so you do not presume it to be true?
Not believe something exists is not the same as believing something doesn't exist.
But don't let that get you down, most people don't understand the term atheist (even many who profess to be one)
Logically you don't have to reach a conclusion at all without evidence.
/taking things way too seriously!
Um I mean... lol?
So yeah, dugg for prompting me to rant about ***** when making a joke! - WayneCA, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1I can remember having OCD as early as 5, I'm a great athlete. People with OCD are prone to becoming great athletes because they get OCD about training, not the other way around.
- FuzzplugJones, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1Mental illness is real. Unfortunately we have equated OCD and ADD and other disorders with bad habits and eccentricities. As someone with depression, anxiety, and a little OCD, for what it's worth, these are real things that their sufferers put in real round-the-clock effort to live with. But most people are still highly intolerant to it.
I'd trade it all for cancer, and I'm deadly serious. The media has distilled cancer into something that even the dumbest of the dumb can understand. This has hidden benefits (i.e. people rarely make fun of cancer victims, either because they've been made to understand what a tragedy it is, or they care what others think of them and they know making fun of cancer is a no-no. Mental illness does not yet have this sort of mainstream acceptance. To put it another way, nobody's made a stupid rubber bracelet for mental illness.
There was more, but I have to go take some Aleve because I've gotten a stress headache from watching the textbox resize after every letter I type. - inactive, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1More like OCD people are prone to become athletes.
- Velvolver, on 05/20/2009, -0/+1The goals and accomplishments I try to acheive aren't made obsolete by cars and 100 years worth of technology rendering the accomplishment obsolete.
This isn't a tangible thing like making a nice bed for yourself instead of going to ikea.
It's ***** running. - perrysan, on 05/20/2009, -0/+0Olympic strength coach Charles Poliquin once opined in an interview that he noticed that the more repetitive the sport (eg cycling, swimming) the more likely the athlete was to have an OCD-type personality. He found that athletes in sports such as biathlons were very well grounded psychologically. Unfortunately the interviewer didn't ask if Poliquin thought the OCD was an effect of repetitive training or a beneficial trait for repetitive training regimens.
- eramos, on 05/20/2009, -0/+0no
- absconder22, on 05/20/2009, -0/+0superior article
- NYConcepts, on 05/20/2009, -5/+4So because you practice until something is perfect, you have OCD? What an underachieving society.
- Crimsoneer, on 05/20/2009, -3/+2This article is concerned with olympic athletes...I'm pretty sure the level of perfection required for OCD doesn't include varsity footballers.
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