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ORIGINAL: DesFIP

Depression and high functioning athlete are mutually not possible.

Do athletes get a temporary high? Sure. Most people feel pumped up after going to the gym. Does that mean that everybody who goes to the gym is a substance abuser? Not at all.

I've known a lot of athletes and the only thing that might be applicable here is the caffeine usage. Because they're running on lack of sleep during competitions. But after the meet is over, they sleep in and don't still need that level of caffeine.

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Velonews
Five Tours de France. Five Giri d’Italia. Three world pro road championships. (In 1974, the year he entered only 140 races – hah! – and won only 38 of them for a 27-percent winning average, he took the hat-trick and won all three of these majors.) Seven Milan-San Remos. Two Tours of Flanders. Three Paris-Roubaix. Five Liège-Bastogne-Lièges. Two Amstel Gold Races. The hour record, in 1972 – a year in which he also won the Tour and the Giro, along with five major classics and 43 other races. His trophy shelf groans with iron from three Ghent-Wevelgems, three Flèche Wallonnes, three Paris-Nices, three Baracchi Trophies, six Montjuich Hill Climbs. Among others.His strength and endurance are legendary, but Merckx had no weaknesses as a sprinter, climber or time trialist, either. He holds the record for the most days in the Giro leader’s pink jersey, at 78, and the Tour’s yellow jersey, at 96. He’s the only rider to have won the Tour-Giro double three times. He won six Giro time trials. He won the Tour both overall and on points – the yellow jersey and the green jersey – three times, in 1969, ’71 and ’72. He holds the record for most stage wins in a single Tour, eight, and he did that twice, in ’70 and ’74 (and he won six stages in ’69 and again in ’72). Just to round out the collection, Merckx also won the King of the Mountains polka-dot jersey in ’69 and ’70. He did all this in epic battles against great riders, some of whom rank among the greatest athletes the sport has produced. Against Jacques Anquetil, against Felice Gimondi, against Luis Ocaña, Raymond Poulidor, Bernard Thévenet, Rik Van Looy, Joop Zoetemelk, Merckx battled and won – not just won, but decimated them, broke their will, crushed them totally and left them pedaling feebly in the thin vapor of his trail. “In those days, the big names didn’t ride to win,” says Zoetemelk. “First there was Merckx, and then another classification began behind him.”

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ORIGINAL: sugarDaddy33

Hi there,
I am just another dom but i am also a student from Greece, just finished a research on “High Capable Profile Athletes”. My research went well and is, by all means, finished. During this research i’ ve reached to several conclusions, but as always, new theories arized. I am trying to prove or not a theory here. The connection between “Masochists” to “High Capable Profile Athletes” . In order to do that, i could use your expertise:

Do masochists “identify” with one or several of the following signs?

1] Smooth food abuse [Unexpected or expected weight gain]
2] Smooth alcohol abuse [more than 5 drinks / day]
3] Coffe abuse [more than 5 cups / day]
4] Smooth drug abuse. [Pain killers etc]
5] Smooth depression [Feeling the world is pointless] , when they stop “performing masochists acts”, for a long time.

If so, it is clear to me that, high capable athletes connect to masochists [same signs] and that connection is called “Dopamine Hunt”. If not this theory is another “toilet theory” :)

Thank you for helping a poor student becoming a useful [?] doctor

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ORIGINAL: sugarDaddy33


1] Smooth food abuse [Unexpected or expected weight gain]
2] Smooth alcohol abuse [more than 5 drinks / day]
3] Coffe abuse [more than 5 cups / day]
4] Smooth drug abuse. [Pain killers etc]
5] Smooth depression [Feeling the world is pointless] , when they stop “performing masochists acts”, for a long time.

quote:

ORIGINAL: sugarDaddy33

Hi there,
I am just another dom but i am also a student from Greece, just finished a research on “High Capable Profile Athletes”. My research went well and is, by all means, finished. During this research i’ ve reached to several conclusions, but as always, new theories arized. I am trying to prove or not a theory here. The connection between “Masochists” to “High Capable Profile Athletes” . In order to do that, i could use your expertise:

Do masochists “identify” with one or several of the following signs?

1] Smooth food abuse [Unexpected or expected weight gain]
2] Smooth alcohol abuse [more than 5 drinks / day]
3] Coffe abuse [more than 5 cups / day]
4] Smooth drug abuse. [Pain killers etc]
5] Smooth depression [Feeling the world is pointless] , when they stop “performing masochists acts”, for a long time.

If so, it is clear to me that, high capable athletes connect to masochists [same signs] and that connection is called “Dopamine Hunt”. If not this theory is another “toilet theory” :)

Thank you for helping a poor student becoming a useful [?] doctor