The Most Mysterious Mental Disorder In Sports

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[rameshmukherjee]

The yips nearly made me quit college baseball. There is no worse pain than not being able to do a simple task that you have done thousands of times before without issue (for me, throwing back to the pitcher), and having it cost your team. If anyone is going through anything similar, I can share my strategies and what I went through to overcome them.

[avandelayy]

It is kinda ironic advertising a gambling site in a video about mental illness, given that they are a primary cause of them

[ぽん-wv]

There’s a Japanese pitcher witch joined the Oakland A’s this season
Fujinami, he had suffered YIPs and still struggling. He tried everything but has not recovered completely,
so for the last chance he decided to challenge majors. Change the whole environment might work.
He had the potential as being rival with Ohtani
in early years but Yips came.
It was so painful to see him hit the batters and keeps on apologizing and even showed tears on the mound.
Batters all knew he was
suffering Yips and showed sympathy to him and didn’t get mad
even plunked near the head.
I wish him recovery in US.

[VinnyI]

Im shocked Matzek wasn't featured on this video. Going from a promising prospect, to retiring with the yips, to coming to the Braves, and being amazing, and one of the key contributors to their WS win. His 3 straight Ks against the Dodgers will always be legendary.

[DDG]

The yips is such a fascinating phenomenon. It happened to me in bowling. Used to average over 200 but went through a solid period of time when I could barely break 140. I think it’s 90% mental, but the mental aspect affects your physical game. What happened to me is that I never even used to think about my mechanics. I had repeated it so many times that it was natural and automatic to me. It was at the point where if someone asked me what I did to get good, I wouldn’t know what to say cause I never deliberately practiced my mechanics, it just came about due to pure repetition of bowling. There wasn’t some special method that I used, so if I randomly lost my bowling abilities one day, I would have no idea how to bring it back.

One practice session I had a random bad game. I started the next game, but I couldn’t get that last game out of my head. That game, I started overthinking my mechanics. What once came naturally now wasn’t there anymore because I was now thinking about every aspect of my shot. It all spiraled from there. It’s hard to even remember, but it seemed like trying to be too deliberate in the entirety of your mechanics fucks you up. After a few months, my mechanics just randomly came back out of nowhere. The scariest part is how rapid it was. It’s not like practicing during my slump slowly brought my abilities back. I was at the same level of sucking the entire time until it randomly returned

[arlo]

As a lifetime Cardinal fan, I was watching the playoff game that Rick Ankiel threw all those I wild pitches in. We fans were stunned as we had watched him all season and had truly fallen in love with him. When he didn't improve the next season, we were truly saddened as if he had died, BUT, when he came back as an outfielder, and did so fantastic, I truly believe the entire city rejoiced. I, for one, wish him only the best.

[t_momula]

I got drafted from the braves and needless to say, my pro career was darkened by yips. It’s not just losing mechanics, your whole approach to the plate is washed. I’ve never been so scared that I was gonna strikeout, and I constantly felt like I wasn’t improving. On top of that there was this 17 year old kid named Ozzie Albies who was growing so fast that I just felt not good enough. When in reality, I made it there which proved I was. I wish I had the same mindset today, than I did those two years.

[alecdomotor]

I caught the yips as a pitcher in high school and man, they are just brutal. I used to have excellent accuracy and would almost never walk a batter. Then one morning I woke up and literally forgot how to throw a baseball. It was the weirdest feeling ever. My arm felt clunky and awkward, almost like trying to throw with your opposite hand. I couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn and lost a lot of velocity too. At some points I was honestly nervous about throwing the ball over the backstop, it was that bad. The worst part was that none of my teammates or coaches understood and just assumed I sucked. The whole experience was so frustrating and embarrassing that I lost my love for the game and ended up quitting. If anyone else out there is going through the yips right now, I feel for you. They are no joke.

[theaviatr]

Just got the yips this year in college. Terrible experience, especially when everyone you talk to in the baseball world just gives you the “oh well” look. Sometimes they can’t be fully recovered from. I almost broke three metal bats trying to find my mechanics again. Thankfully my friend helped me get through it. Thanks for making a video on this.

[matthewandress]

Mark Wohlers was one of the nicest guys! I watched him pitch in Greenville in AA and he was untouchable. It was funny to watch all the scouts pull out their radar guns when he would come in to close out a game. Some players tried to avoid more contact with fans than necessary, but he would always sign autographs and talk to kids. My brother was 7 or 8 and loved him because they shared the same first name. He would always take a few minutes and talk to my brother prior to a game. He even let my brother interview him for a school project. Such a nice dude and man you could hear the ball when he threw it!

[jamiec]

Ankiel was so good defensively as an outfielder that most people forget that he came up as a pitcher. Dude had a legendary arm from the outfield.

[weewoo]

honestly very dystopian to see the pretty genuine, serious, and caring introduction of this video follow by a sports betting sponsorship. as much as i dont think anyone else couldve made this video and am therefore thankful that it exists, a sponsorship like that really does a number on the discussion of the topic as a whole

[mjccarpenter]

I kind of have the yips with driving. Not sure when it happened as I have driven hundreds of thousands of miles. I started feeling like I was going to crash or pass out. Strangest thing ever, I used to be the one to always want to drive and now I hardly want to go anywhere.

[philipramsden]

My daughter's a junior in HS and a catcher and got the yips for a couple weeks throwing the ball back to the pitcher, but her throw downs were perfect. She's all good now, but it was driving her nuts.

[robbiearroyo]

I got the yips on short throws when I was a freshman in high school. I rarely play anymore so I can't say I still have it and it would fluctuate in severity when I was playing, but it really is a terrible experience. I think the thought of repeating the failure becomes so traumatizing you can't help but repeat it. Great video!

[Crippledsasquash]

Top darts players have been talking about the yips since the 70s. Going to the occy and making the motion to throw but not being able to let go of the dart. It distroyed one of the very best in the 80 eric bristow (the crafty cockney). He has done some great talks on it and there are a couple great vids on you tube about how low he sank anyway great video. 👍

[ernesttenesmus]

Thank you for posting. Task-specific dystonia — yips — disorders are real and occur in various ways that might go undiagnosed and thus be misunderstood. I first learned of yips in 1983 when Dodgers second baseman Steve Sax inexplicably lost the ability to make routine throws to first base. A magazine article provided background information that helped me understand my sudden loss of ability to perform on a musical instrument I had played since boyhood and my subsequent loss of cursive writing. Some tasks routinely performed with one hand now require the use of both. Go figure! It makes little or no sense and seems almost random (such as a pitcher retaining control throwing to the plate, yet being unable to throw to a base). It’s one thing to experience yips with a hobby, quite another when yips affects one’s livelihood. As frustrating as it yips might be, it’s good to know that “it happens” and for the public to be aware. Thanks again.

[SilverAndBlackZach]

The yips never got to Lester?? Are you kidding me? His absolute meltdown against the Royals in the playoffs where almost every batter ran on him because he would refuse to throw over. Lost the and because of that and was eliminated from playoffs.

[activegraves]

I was an opening bowler in cricket (similar to a starting pitcher in baseball for the uninitiated) and i had this happen in a few games. It’s literally like you said where your body just forgets to do what it’s done 1000 times.

For me it felt like the natural feeling of my action was locked behind this obscure mental barrier, the harder you push your body and try and over do it the worse it gets, but you can’t go off into the nets/bullpen, clear your mind and go back in there, your team needs you to perform.

[ethanrothstein]

The yips are no joke, truly wild phenomenon that a surprising number of ballplayers suffer from. Best way I could describe it is it feels like a panic attack every time you pick up the ball - couldn't even feel the ball on my fingers. I was able to overcome it, but it was brutal and almost killed my love for the game entirely.