最近,人们对精神疾病的认识有所提高,尤其是职业运动员。这使运动精神科医生和其他专职医疗专业人员在职业运动中发挥的重要作用得到了关注。它也暴露了运动精神病学的局限性,尤其是体育精神病医生的短缺。职业运动员在职业生涯中承受着多重压力,导致重大的心理健康结果。如果没有得到充分解决,压力会导致业绩下滑和较差的结果,这反过来又加剧了压力的恶性循环。我们介绍了一名前男性运动员的情况,躯体,和心理社会压力使他容易患上精神疾病。这个案例强调了运动员缺乏对身体和心理社会压力源的早期识别和管理的潜在后果,这可能导致心理疾病,并可能导致不良的医疗结果,如重复住院和无家可归。
Recently, there has been an increase in awareness about mental illness, especially among professional athletes. This has brought to focus the important roles that sports psychiatrists and other allied health professionals play in professional sports. It has also exposed the limitations of sports psychiatry, especially the shortage of sports psychiatrists. Professional athletes are subjected to multiple stressors during their careers, resulting in significant mental health outcomes. If not adequately addressed, stress can cause performance slumps and poorer outcomes, which in turn exacerbates stress in a vicious cycle. We present the
case of a former male athlete with multiple physical, somatic, and psychosocial stressors that predisposed him to develop mental illness. This
case highlights the potential consequences of a lack of early recognition and management of physical and psychosocial stressors in athletes, which can contribute to psychological illness and potentially lead to adverse medical outcomes such as repeat hospitalization and homelessness.