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Commanders kicker comments on his OCD.
Posted on 1/15/25 at 2:25 pm
Posted on 1/15/25 at 2:25 pm
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Commanders' Zane Gonzalez on his OCD after game-winning kick: 'It’s who I am, and it’s what I go through'
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As Washington Commanders kicker Zane Gonzalez was walking onto the field at Raymond James Stadium to attempt a game-winning kick, his obsessive-compulsive disorder was on display to a national television audience.
The 29-year-old Gonzalez, who is on his sixth NFL team, alternated between fixing his hair and tapping his helmet to his head. Minutes before he kicked a 37-yard field goal to send the Commanders to the divisional round against the Detroit Lions, he repeatedly took off his cleats, adjusted his socks and put his cleats back on.
“If anything, it makes my wife and family more upset than it does with me,” Gonzalez said of the attention via Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post. “I’m used to it. … Everybody that’s known or seen me kick has seen me do it millions of times. Being on such a big stage on Sunday night, a game-winner, it draws a little bit more attention, I’ve learned. It’s who I am, and it’s what I go through, and I, above everybody else, realize how crazy it looks doing it. I’m aware. But at the same time, you can’t help it.”
Gonzalez, who learned of his OCD when he was a child, has been public about his condition since his freshman year at Arizona State University. He told ESPN during his first NFL season in 2017, "It makes you a perfectionist and more detail oriented. Off the field, it's a pain in the butt."
While it's something that affects his life on and off the football field — like having to touch the bottom of cups he uses, for example — Gonzalez had adjusted his daily life to deal with his OCD and make it part of his preparation for games and kicks.
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Posted on 1/15/25 at 2:38 pm to Bunk Moreland
Good on him. Rooting for him.
Posted on 1/15/25 at 2:41 pm to Bunk Moreland
Unless you've dealt with OCD yourself or know someone who has had it clinically diagnosed, you have no idea how serious of a condition it is.
People love to equate it to someone who keeps their room clean, but coming from someone whose loved one had it, I can tell you first hand it is much more than that and a gigantic pain in the arse
People love to equate it to someone who keeps their room clean, but coming from someone whose loved one had it, I can tell you first hand it is much more than that and a gigantic pain in the arse
Posted on 1/15/25 at 2:42 pm to PP7 for heisman
Posted on 1/15/25 at 2:45 pm to Bunk Moreland
As I walk in from bus duty where I put cones out that all have to be equidistant from each other and curb, I feel his pain.
Posted on 1/15/25 at 2:50 pm to Bunk Moreland
My buddies and I all made fun of him when we watched that game together. Kind of feel like shite now
Posted on 1/15/25 at 3:02 pm to Bunk Moreland
He seems like a good dude. My wife makes fun of me for my mild OCD if the bills in my wallet aren't all in descending order and facing the same direction I have to take a second to correct it all. It's only ever out of order because she wants to laugh at me
if the bills in my wallet aren't all in descending order and facing the same direction I have to take a second to correct it all. It's only ever out of order because she wants to laugh at me
Posted on 1/15/25 at 3:02 pm to Bunk Moreland
I have debilitating OCD and take an antipsychotic to help, it’s not fun.
Racing thoughts, not being able to let go of the past no matter how minor something is, going to the restroom constantly and urologists saying there is no physical cause.
Racing thoughts, not being able to let go of the past no matter how minor something is, going to the restroom constantly and urologists saying there is no physical cause.
This post was edited on 1/15/25 at 3:04 pm
Posted on 1/15/25 at 3:04 pm to Bunk Moreland
I have mild OCD and can feel this. I have to tap the bottom of a cup or water bottle on the counter before sipping it
Posted on 1/15/25 at 3:29 pm to Bunk Moreland
Posted on 1/15/25 at 3:45 pm to PP7 for heisman
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People love to equate it to someone who keeps their room clean,
Just a FWIW, that's OCPD or being a "super neat freak".
Posted on 1/15/25 at 3:54 pm to PP7 for heisman
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Unless you've dealt with OCD yourself or know someone who has had it clinically diagnosed, you have no idea how serious of a condition it is.
People love to equate it to someone who keeps their room clean, but coming from someone whose loved one had it, I can tell you first hand it is much more than that and a gigantic pain in the arse
Yep.
Real OCD isn’t just “being neat”. It’s a huge inconvenience and challenge to one’s daily life. Definitely rooting for Zane Gonzalez
Posted on 1/15/25 at 4:24 pm to TheWalrus
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Racing thoughts, not being able to let go of the past no matter how minor something is
Well now, that hit close to home. You mean I shouldn't constantly think of the worst moments of failure in my life and use it to mentally abuse myself? And here I thought that was just depression and anxiety.
Posted on 1/15/25 at 4:28 pm to Bunk Moreland
Similar rituals have been going on with MLB batters forever.
Posted on 1/15/25 at 5:55 pm to Bunk Moreland
Ok makes sense now, watching the game I was like why dafuq he keeps messing with his hair
Posted on 1/16/25 at 1:12 am to biggdogg
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Ok makes sense now, watching the game I was like why dafuq he keeps messing with his hair
I knew exactly what it was when I saw it live. I have a good friend who has OCD and have seen him do stuff like that for years.
He had the damndest time walking off greens on the golf course. He would putt out, walk off, then go back and tap the green with his putter a specific number of times before we could continue with the round. Sometimes the number was 5, sometimes 8. Very random.
Posted on 1/16/25 at 1:25 am to Bunk Moreland
My wife commented on this while watching the game live. I told her to shut the frick up and make me a sandwich. Sorry babe. You were right.
Still waiting on that sandwich.
Still waiting on that sandwich.
Posted on 1/16/25 at 2:07 am to Bunk Moreland
Now the nfl is going to have OCD awareness month where the players wear orange or something like that and it’s gonna drive the actual people with OCD crazy when the uniforms look different
Posted on 1/16/25 at 5:00 am to LSUGrad9295
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He had the damndest time walking off greens on the golf course. He would putt out, walk off, then go back and tap the green with his putter a specific number of times before we could continue with the round.
I know a guy who has to walk through doors backwards. Anytime he is walking into a store or something he will turn around and hold his key fob up like he is locking his doors and keep walking backwards. He does it any time he walks into a room with a door in his house. I have known him nearly my whole life and never noticed until one day he pulled the key fob thing, but we were in my truck. I was like wtf, and he told me about how he had dealt with it since he was a kid.
Posted on 1/16/25 at 7:04 am to KCM0Tiger
My friend has moderate OCD but has a sense of humor about it - she says she has CDO because the letters need to be in alphabetical order.
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