Therapist Unlimited Blog

World-class athletes who have a competitive and perfectionist spirit have high tendency of being inflicted with an eating disorder.
This was disclosed by Kimberly Dennis, M.D., medical director at Timberline Knolls who revealed that since excellent athletes rely on precision and "perfect" execution of planned movements, behaviours, and training rituals in order to succeed and win, those predisposed genetic, familial, psychosocial predispositions for eating disorders are even more likely to develop the illness.
Dennis believes a number of famous athletes around the world could be suffering from eating disorders but they are just hiding it due to shame.
He suspect coaches and parents of successful athletes could have just overlooked the possibilities that their ward or children could be suffering from eating disorders due to the success of these people.
Furthermore, Dennis said to protect athletes from suffering from eating disorders their coaches and parents should closely monitor them.
The medical expert said athletes themselves should be open to reveal whatever eating disorder symptoms they have, despite their status since delaying their condition could worsen the medical condition.
Athletes need to realize that more than anything in this world, health is far more important than prestige and popularity.

Athletes need to monitor closely their health since their competitive and perfectionist spirit makes them prone to eating disorders.