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

Partially considered one of our three-part sequence, 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 faculty. Whereas that analysis helped her begin to perceive what was taking place, it wasn’t till her ADHD analysis years later that she was lastly capable of put the entire items collectively. Her subsequent step was determining how you can greatest handle her diagnoses. 

“Loads of that comes right down to plenty of discuss remedy, numerous somatic therapies,” she mentioned. “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 laborious as a result of there aren’t many individuals speaking about this type of stuff. And I feel even simply as lately as in all probability 5 years in the past, this simply wasn’t talked about,” mentioned Seidel. 

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

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

Watch Half 2 and Half 3 on this sequence.