Friday, November 21, 2008

David Beckham has a disorder?!

So yea, there's David right above this, looking all gorgeous and godly. However, as unreal and extremely famous as he may be, hes just like other people and like many others he has a disorder. It's OCD, a quite hard one to cope with. The World Health Organization rates OCD as one of the top ten most debilitating illnesses. It affects both men and women equally.
OCD causes him to carry out certain rituals that he says are silly. One of his rumored rituals is that he has to pass the ball to his teammate, Zidane, exactly 15 times in every game, no more and no less. This has supposedly cost the team before when Beckham would no longer pass the ball to Zidane for a goal. Family conflicts between David's dad, mom, and father-in-law cause him stress during the holidays, worsening his compulsions. He admits to always counting the cans in his fridge and the clothes in his closet and always straightening magazines into patterns and lines. He has been said to spend hours straightening up furniture and even has to buy a certain amount of things, like 20 packets of supernoodles every time he goes to the supermarket. His wife Victoria, 31, has said: "Everything has to match in the house. If there are three cans of Diet Pepsi, he'd throw one away because it's uneven."
To David's teammates it was a joke, and they would go in his room and mess with his stuff. That really can be debilitating if you have to always have everything perfect. It seems to me that it would also cause extreme stress when things were messed up. Some other celebrities that are said to have this disorder are Harrison Ford, Woody Allen, and Winona Ryder.
Man people have OCD and aren't even aware, or won't tell anyone. David getting help is the best thing this beautiful man could do.

(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-381802/The-obsessive-disorder-haunts-life.html)

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1378163.php

2 comments:

Alec G said...

People think of athletes as popular as Beckham as invincible sometimes, but it sounds like he's got some serious issues with his OCD. I wonder if he's ever gotten help or even a diagnosis for it...

Good job on the post, although you might have wanted to go with a different picture haha.

AustinC said...

I love your thoughts on how bad and stressful OCD can be on individuals and I thought the information about passing the ball only 15 times a game is extremely interesting. It seems like someone would have noticed him doing that and said something. Overall a very good post!