Injury, pressures from coaches and parents, and overtraining without visible progress are some of the leading causes in mental illness in athletes. In the paper, “illness perceptions and mood states are associated with injury-related outcomes in athletes” written by, Paul Van Wilgen, AD A. Kaptein & Michel S. Brink, the following study was conducted “In a study of fifteen different sports with a follow up of sixteen years.” 1576. In the study’s model includes Wilgen, …show more content…
Stigma in the athletic community has led to very few studies in any of these areas except for eating disorders, as they have become more socially accepted. Sports psychiatry and psychotherapy. Mental strains and disorders in professional sports. Challenge and answer to societal changes. As written by Valentin Z. Markser. “Psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia and mania, are very rare among high-performance athletes, usually manifesting after taking anabolic steroids.” S182 The most studied mental illness in athletes are eating disorders, Marsker “15% of women in the field of aesthetic suffer from anorexia or bulimia. Furthermore 20.1% of female and 7.7% of male athletes from Norway, as well as 60% of female gymnasts with normal weight have been diagnosed with an eating disorder.”