very much of next sports life looks at how to overcome addiction to exercise. don't forget there's more news on dw dot com, and you can follow the latest on instagram and asked. the handle is at the w news. a mike located in berlin from me and the entire new scene here. thanks for joining us and bye for now. the good. sometimes it's hard to find what you're looking for. but we've got something for you. how many platforms can you handle single, attain usually without having the feeling that it's just too much it might seem easy. how much can we do simultaneously?

multitasking these, the modern man. because if we do too much, we paid it all wrong. we mess things up, risking brain damage. so let's stop this self sabotage, humans and multitasking. watching our new to v w documentary, the a v as a definition of addiction. a pervasive and intense uh, edge to engage in behaviors providing immediate sensory rewards despite that harmful consequences. so why are we looking at someone working out come from this focus? not even when i was sick. i couldn't believe it. i'd stick with it running 20 case rise after getting up, regardless of how i felt i was living the number of people suffering from exercise

addiction can only be guessed. experts assume there are a significant number of undetected optics among professional and amateur athletes. i was never able to just be myself and feel free into life or even laugh last who called to this little documentation about this condition as it has not yet classified as a disorder. some therapists and doctors are not even aware it exists by the board was absolutely my drug. that's how it felt it was like getting high in the type how . how do you deal with an addiction that is officially not even recognized? the vision is an ordinary morning in the license plate on the camel of eats. it wasn't

always like nice a splendid unless bundle 5 get up already tens and tired and at the same time stressed by all the things i had planned. i was a full time student, had a job on the side and was also doing several hours, some sports every day or ahead of me and i was just been off. well, i also did tomorrow. and just for myself, i just get up and tell myself i was going to do it. nobody knew i just set off with no water. and i was cut off and one of us saw i'm for, for complex ones and this strain liaison, but it was never for any competitive goals or due to a flattery condition spot, it was a pathological need, the ones that and also that kind of what our running more often further on for a long gun in order to keep on getting the same cake.

neglecting social life and other interests, these up potential symptoms of exercise addiction. it was not so much enjoyment as compulsion motivated fredericka to go running. i just have to head low points where i broke down in training and started to cry because i wanted to stop what i could and i'm about to have a laptop, depression, insomnia, anxiety, restlessness, and panic. a common withdrawal symptoms caused by something that normally ought to be health. sports the joy of just relaxing and doing nothing is something the now 27 year old needed to learn. it was a long journey that started when she was still growing up, found lice. so living with my parents and i think i really did believe thank them that i look at lactic, which is slide all the photos of myself and support scan. and what people did up to about is i did as much support as i could every day. and i was completely helpless

. you can see it and my eyes on my face and all, there's no life in them this i had got kind of the been this has been completed. they suffered from an eating disorder from the age of 12, having control over our own eating habits tells us one thing above all. i have control over my life. in her case, support was an addiction displacement. exercise addiction is often identified not as a primary disease, but rather as a secondary illness. and that's had thought for me, if at the time, well i thought was an outlet for all the stress in my body from the emotional turmoil and trauma i had experienced from guns here. and support helped me to feel better in the short term, which is why i became addicted to other sports have to have a home. but in the long term court, it left me drained,

independent things and it took over my life. and i was good, sad opinions can last my leaving them on 4 occasions. she checked herself into hospitals to get help in the shape of psychosomatic treatment. as or i went there voluntarily because for me being an inpatient at a clinic, i was a kind of refuge where i could just put everything aside, including responsibility. and there was a place where i knew i had no obligations. where is at home, on my own, i had 0 control over my life, have to is more comfortable. it is online. the people use a wide variety of substances and habits to deal with stress or to feel more relaxed . addiction doesn't necessarily have anything to do with what the individual is addicted to and with what excessive cleaning constant, sex or social media, gambling addictions. these are all ways to prevents in particular thoughts from

entering on minds and looking unwelcome emotions. trauma, as a super trauma, as extremely individual, it doesn't need to be anything bad, like some terrible natural disaster or having been to be used for not not false colors. what i then missed calls a trauma, is a response by the body to an experience that overwhelms you. it's free to stress that you're no longer able to control yourselves, because i'll lose the ones as on this method z and come from just by this list. so without a doubt for me, the key to finding the road to recovery was the trauma diagnosis. hi, erica was advised me off to the diagnosis. i finally felt understood as a whole task more. it was out of necessity that i didn't run to get them around

because i couldn't help it. my mom called pa does, my body was permanently charged up and when i that's why i spend yeah, suffering just last and the died and all kinds happen. you know, in weekly therapy sessions, she learns to get in touch with a ceilings by improving her connection to her body that that's biased as the huge and just bear with feeling helpless to tire and honestly, completely pinned up. basically, i was anxiety along too slowly. so anxiety, helplessness, and despair. mm hm. well, there's a good reason for your nervous system to say no. best to keep it in your head. yeah, yeah. that's true. that is from, from been, i've been a therapy for eating disorders and depression since i was 15. and i've seen

a lot of therapists and that time. and there are a lot of dubious approaches out there. but instead of scaring you off, it encourages you to seek someone who sees the real you provide. so you run that and look at it. mm hm. how does that feel? when things come down a bit from the some minecraft, it's my has always telling me that looking in what is really bad, comes from ours. but now i tend to feel the opposite. the entire the cardboard high. and it's great and realizing that things on how my head is telling me all the time that it's here. mm hm. how does that feel? it makes me feel heavy worse. the current research

reveals that everyone can be affected by exercise addiction at your athletes. and you're in south leads and you can go as i can send it to be particularly at risk say leak has found a way out this is what the vice boss has now become a hobby for me that i do for myself, and to empower myself to miss, how on virus miss when i do sport now, instead of feeling helpless and powerless, it's me and control. nice. this is habit. and i've seen a much more relaxed and at ease with myself. i have more power because i eat enough . and i know i can leave it if i don't feel like it or if i'm sick car. and there's another thing that's very important to have raising awareness of mental

health issues. drive by a. hi, i'm busy jim crow. and john young, you know, on you are listening to on so good to tie. this is lovely to see you, sweetie. and for you guys to be hearing us again to him. we finally have a new focus topic coming soon in her pod costs wouldn't say here or full disclosure . she and a friend dea, nina told boldly and candidly about mental health. those came up to us. you'll know comic oscar lesson. what's their advice to friends or relatives? of those affected by exercise addiction. i'm also select the offer as an open and honest communication. instead of immediately resorting to 3rd parties. start with a heart to heart with your daughter or son, to see what the actual issue is. ok. lots of stuff like copy it due to psychological stream, into the mac. and if you notice that there's something wrong one plus, it's incredibly important to read out about the subject before you start

experimenting or prohibiting stand a couple of them. so that's also said the house blocks, cardboard can also constitute south palm, then if you train while sick, then mile train too much on each enough. this one, just as much in my book, it's not always good for your body too much of it is pathological, is the most exciting sports story, their passions, their choices, and their drive for life on the books

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