Arizona Coyotes goaltender Connor Ingram suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Breakthrough season playing in the hockey league NHL Connor Ingram has opened the league on the website about their mental health problems.
Ingram, 26, blocks pucks in the Arizona Coyotes goal. He has played in 23 games this season, of which the Coyotes have won 13. The save percentage has hurt to 91.6.
Ingram has four clean sheets, which is the best number in the NHL by the Pittsburgh Penguins Tristan Jarryn with. However, Ingram can't gloat about his successes with supporters. He ignores fans when entering and exiting the rink.
“I feel bad for these kids who want to be 'high' and always there, but if I do that, it might ruin my day,” Ingram says.
He suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), which has also forced him to drink excessively. Touches, or rather avoiding them, is an obsession for the goalkeeper.
Ingram told the goaltending coach of his then-club Nashville Predators about his psychiatric disorder To Ben Vanderklok In Dallas in early 2021. Vanderklok sensed something was wrong, and Ingram opened up to him about his daily hell.
Vanderklok asked the goalie why he wouldn't seek help. At that time, Ingram had not yet debuted in the NHL, but he got the help of the league and the players' association, the NHLPA.
Therapy helped – Ingram was diagnosed and no longer thought he was crazy.
The goalkeeper later told the newspaper For The Tennessean, that if there are 12 beers in the fridge, he must drink them all. Additionally, Ingram was obsessed with sexually transmitted diseases. He checked himself five or six times an hour for symptoms.
“When I was dressed [varusteet], I couldn't check. Being on the ice in full goalie gear was difficult for me,” he told the Nashville newspaper.
Arizona Coyotes goaltender Connor Ingram is obsessive about avoiding contact. She used to fear that she had contracted an STD and would check herself every ten minutes for symptoms.
Obsessive compulsive disorder the disturbance begins with the Duodecim club valid treatment – website, most often in childhood or adolescence. Ingram also suffered from symptoms as a child.
Things were always in perfect order, and a month's school project was completed in 72-hour blocks because Ingram couldn't do anything else until the job was done.
As a senior, the goalkeeper obsessively avoided germs. Imaginations about sexually transmitted diseases also came along, as Ingram had already told.
“I always thought I had AIDS or HIV. I had read that if you have syphilis, you get a rash on your hands and soles of your feet, so I took off my socks every ten minutes, looked at my feet and told myself that I'm fine,” he says now on the NHL's website.
At times, Ingram would shake so badly during practice that he would have to leave the shower rooms in the middle of practice to check that he hadn't caught an infection.
Ingram says that he underwent extensive exposure therapy during the treatment period. He went into public spaces, touched door handles and had to live with it.
The goalkeeper says he's still testing himself to see how long it takes him to “go crazy”. He says he still has to work on it.
“I stay away from anything that might cause restlessness, anxiety or the like. I will sit in a stranger's chair for the rest of my life and tell about my life's problems once a week,” says Ingram.
He gets help from someone who played more than 600 NHL games in the Predators and Colorado Avalanche From Colin Wilsonwho, like Ingram, suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Wilson has also spoken openly about his experiences.
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