without you're all up to date, but stay with us. sports life is next. looking at people who become addicted to exercise from our news. of course, you can always download our app dw news. check out our website, d, w dot com. i'm david levitz. thanks for watching the questions. got any issues or thoughts say what the name is, the calls back said wow, thank you so much for joining in. welcome to don't hold a bad

a lot of people do that. it's all about saying it aloud. most would have been nosy bay, like good everyone to king out the award winning called called don't call back 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 book is not even when i was sick. i couldn't believe it. i'd stick with it running 20 case right after getting up, regardless of how i found guy 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 in the 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 sport was absolutely my drug. that's how it felt. it was like getting high in the pipe. how, how do you deal with an addiction that is officially not even recognized the, this is an ordinary morning in the license plate on the beach. it wasn't always

like nice suspended unless funded outside 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 while i also did tomorrow at the just for myself. and 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 in this strain liaison. but it was never for any competitive goals or due to a flattery condition, spots. it was a pathological need. the ones on and off that kind of thing, without all running more often further on for a long gun in order to keep on getting the same take the 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 as how to set 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. i was living with my parents, and i think i really did believe them that i look at lactic, which is slide all the photos of myself and support scan. i'm working for the 5th of a is i did as much support as i could every day and i was completely helpless. you

can see it in my eyes on my face, and there is 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, sport 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 few betcha in the short term which is why i became addicted to other sports, but in the long term court, it left me drained, independent things, and it took over my life, and i was good, sadly,

opinions for most men leaving wisdom. 14 occasions she checked herself into hospitals to get help in the shape of psychosomatic treatment. so i went there voluntarily because for me being an inpatient at a clinic, it 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, whereas at home on my own, i had 0 control over my life. i to is more comfortable. it is online, the people who 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 white 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 that applause. because 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 yourself because i'll lose the ones i have on this method via and can finish by their slew. so without a doubt for me, the key to finding the road to recovery was the trauma diagnosis. well, hi, erica diaz was advised me off the diagnosis. i finally felt understood as a whole test more. it was out of necessity that i didn't run to get them around because i couldn't help it. my crop part is my body was permanently charged up. and

when i, a lot of i spend yeah, suffering just less than the died and don't going to happen in weekly therapy sessions. she learns to get in touch with her feelings by improving her connection to her body. that was, that's biased as the huge, this bad feeling helpless to tire on completely pinned up basically from i was anxiety level and typically 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 wanted to give out of that look at it. mm hm. when the how does that feel? when things come down a bit from the some blankets. it's my has always telling me that looking in what is really bad comes from ours. and now i tend to feel the opposite. the entire and those kinds of 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 forrest, the

current research reveals that everyone can be affected by exercise addiction at your athletes. insurance athletes engine goes, i can send it to be particularly at risk. the 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. and this is how on virus is 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. and there's another thing that's very important to have raising awareness of mental

health issues. drive by a. hi, i'm busy can cool. and um yeah, nina. oh and yeah, and you are listening to on so good to tie. this is lovely to see you, sweetie. and, and for you guys to be hearing us again to him. we finally have a new focus topic coming soon in hub pod costs wouldn't. so here's a full disclosure. she and a friend dea, nina told foley and candidly about mental health. both came up to us. you'll know comic oscar, that's 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, that's a stoplight it due to psychological stream into the america. 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 more prohibiting sentiment couple toward of them. so that's also said the house was cardinal. it's can also constitute self calm. then if you train was sick, then i'll train too much on each enough one just as much in my book. it's not always good for your body too much of it is pathological and i don't think most people are aware that there is such a thing. and then they thing that too much lying around is bad. but running 10 hours a day is something you can't keep up for long cuz that's what i'm doing. the stuff is kind of a sophisticated spice of people to realize that too much sports is an illness slots

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