Mental disorder in sports
- Anxiety
- Stress
- Depression
Anxiety
Anxiety is a type of disorder that is common. Over 40 million people suffers with this mental illness. Anxiety is when we have this nervous and worry feeling most of the time, typically in an imminent event. How is anxiety related to sports? Well mostly athletes get anxiety when they have competition. They will have this worry feeling that they might loose and will think that because of that their reputation will be over. For example Royce White. He is a basketball player and he suffers from anxiety until now. He is afraid of flying. Everything there is a game, he will convince his couch to go there by bus instead of flying. Also everytime he's on the road, he will check if there is any danger even a nail on the road. He is scared of getting injured or dying and they he can't play anymore.
Stress
Stress is also another mental illness. Stress is way common then anxiety. Stress is when a person has pressure or
tension on something. For stress, there are over 115 million people suffering it. Even kids could suffer from
stress because of too much homework given per day. Not that much student would suffer from it because we all know
that MOSTLY, students doesn't do or finish their homework. For example Landon Donovan, a football player. The reason
why he suffers from stress is because he has so many things in his head. He really admires sports, but then he also
has to think of his family.
Depression
Finally depression. Depression is a feelings of severe despondency and dejection. Around 4% of the world population
diagnose with this mental illness. Depression is the least popular mental illness but it's the worst. Depression is
when people doesn't how a person is really feeling and the person doesn't want to express that feeling even to their
close friends and family. Usually we can't stop depression. Everytime we ask whether they are ok or not, everytime
they will say that they are fine and the worst thing is that they will start cutting. For example, Picabo Street. She
is a skier. How she got depressed? Her fans supported her everytime and she wants the best results to pay back their respect.
But as she skies, she got injured really badly and couldn't ski for a very long time.
