‘You Cannot Faze Me:’ Marathoner Molly Seidel on Her ADHD Prognosis

Partly one among our three-part collection, Molly Seidel, an Olympic medalist, talks about her journey with ADHD and OCD as a younger athlete. Now, she’s serving to others to complete their race.

Skilled marathoner and Olympian Molly Seidel was first recognized with OCD in school. Whereas that analysis helped her begin to perceive what was occurring, it wasn’t till her ADHD analysis years later that she was lastly in a position to put all the items collectively. Her subsequent step was determining tips on how to greatest handle her diagnoses. 

“Loads of that comes all the way down to quite a lot of speak remedy, varied somatic therapies,” she stated. “After which the large one for me is tremendous common meditation, mindfulness follow, and breath work.”

Talking out about her psychological well being struggles has not all the time been straightforward for the elite athlete. 

 “In some methods it has been actually arduous as a result of there aren’t many individuals speaking about this sort of stuff. And I feel even simply as not too long ago as in all probability 5 years in the past, this simply wasn’t talked about,” stated Seidel. 

Over time, although, she has labored to get previous individuals’s criticism and has heard from others who recognize her utilizing her platform to speak about psychological well being. 

“It is these sorts of issues that type of maintain me going … there are all the time going to be the people who criticize [but] I’ve heard each horrible factor at this level. So, actually, you’ll be able to’t faze me.”

Watch Half 2 and Half 3 on this collection.