Psychological Impact of Sport Injuries (2)

Loss of confidence

Isolation

Anxiety

Anger

Causes

Outcomes

Causes

if you are out for a long time and do not see your friends , you may lose friendships , you also cant go out as much and socialise , making you feel lonely.

Outcomes

Causes

Physical Shape

Outcomes

Bad perfromance

Mental Health

Causes

Disappointments and Letdowns

Outcomes

The feeling of not being able to be active and not being able to socialise makes you feel isolated

feeling stressed due to fear of the unknown of what's going to happen

lower performance level becasue you might be scared to go in for a tackle if that is how you got injured

feeling anxious and scared to talk to people

loneliness, loss of interaction between others

feeling scared to go back to training in case you are weaker and unable to perform or just overall feeling scared of your performances

getting an injury could cause you to be stuck inside for a long period of time and so you don't see anyone else like your friends

reckless decisions

depression and loss of social life

doing things you wouldnt normally do

Being paranoid to make challenges and taking risks therefore lowing performance

playing rubbish

lose social skills that could be key to your team performing

lack of attendance

not playing in a while can cause you to lose confidence in your ability

Loss of social skills as you have lost your confidence when turning up for this sport

seeing someone else get injured and starting to fear doing things

this could impact your team as communication is key to being successful

As you will start to blame yourself for the injury and therefore you will be angry that you cannot play

if you used the sport to release anger then you wont be able to there will be a lot of anger built up

getting injured stops uou from seeing teammates as youre not playing

cant release anger

change in personality and bad decision making

lose friends due to lack of communication

fall out with people uou are close with

this will impact your mood as well because you will probably keep doing reckless things which will make you play worse

Floating topic

losing friends due to acting different or being horrible

if you have been out for a while then you may develop a thought process that makes going back seem really bad and so when you do you are full of anxiety making you not express yourself