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Anxiety |
Guilt feeling (specific anxiety) |
| (1) TraumaTrauma appears related to a failure in significant competitions, to injury or to essential results that could not be repeated. In cases of trauma, it is not necessary for the athlete to experiment the traumatic event he/she has just assisted to.About past experiences. They might be associated with panic attacks the night before competition, caused by embarrassment or guilt feelings. |
Anxiety has an automatic character and is unspecific. |
Feeling of annihilation caused by lack of affection or the perception of losing that affection (reality vs. mental, personal truth). It appears the fear of failure or success.Resilient athletes might find trauma facilitative, as a resource for growth and fight. |
| (2) DangerNew competitions; the greater the importance of the competition, the higher the threat perceived.About the present moment to face |
Anxiety in the service of the ego (self-achievement need) created by anticipation, controlled and used as a warning signalThe usual anxiety in sport, drive for arousal and functioning beyond limits – proper for high performance |
“Annihilation” in the service of the ego, affect created by anticipation, controlled and used as warning signal(a) Before establishment of the superego, anxiety over loss of narcissistic supplies. It is the case of the athletes who have a gentle superego.(b) After establishment of the superego, conscience (Regulating inner narcissistic supplies) |
| (3) Panic or regarding sports “choking”About future, perspective after the competitionThe feeling of being paralysed, frozen and hopeless in the mind and body of the athletes |
Ego control fails, affect becomes overwhelming. It appears the will and need for regression, to getting to a previous state. |
Ego control fails, affect becomes overwhelming. It appears the fear of failure or success. |
