Partially one in all our three-part sequence, Molly Seidel, an Olympic medalist, talks about her journey with ADHD and OCD as a younger athlete. Now, she’s serving to others to complete their race.
Skilled marathoner and Olympian Molly Seidel was first recognized with OCD in school. Whereas that analysis helped her begin to perceive what was taking place, it wasn’t till her ADHD analysis years later that she was lastly in a position to put all the items collectively. Her subsequent step was determining methods to greatest handle her diagnoses.
“Quite a lot of that comes all the way down to plenty of discuss remedy, numerous somatic therapies,” she stated. “After which the massive one for me is tremendous common meditation, mindfulness observe, and breath work.”
Talking out about her psychological well being struggles has not all the time been simple for the elite athlete.
“In some methods it has been actually laborious as a result of there aren’t many individuals speaking about this type of stuff. And I believe even simply as just lately as in all probability 5 years in the past, this simply wasn’t talked about,” stated Seidel.
Over time, although, she has labored to get previous folks’s criticism and has heard from others who recognize her utilizing her platform to speak about psychological well being.
“It is these sorts of issues that sort of maintain me going … there are all the time going to be the folks that criticize [but] I’ve heard each horrible factor at this level. So, truthfully, you may’t faze me.”
Watch Part 2 and Part 3 on this sequence.
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