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After Eriksen's collapse at EM game - sports psychologist: Processing the "shock situation" can take a long time

2021-06-16T06:37:45.956Z


Christian Eriksen collapsed at the 2021 European Football Championship - a shock for his teammates too. A sports psychologist suspects that this will keep the players busy for longer.


Christian Eriksen collapsed at the 2021 European Football Championship - a shock for his teammates too.

A sports psychologist suspects that this will keep the players busy for longer.

Munich - Christian Eriksen's collapse at the game between Denmark and Finland has been burned into the memories of many football fans. But the 29-year-old's teammates will probably be concerned with the dramatic incident at the European Football Championship * for even longer. At least that's what sports psychologist René Paasch assumes. Such a sudden event means for the teammates "of course a shock situation, a paralysis of shock, which can lead to the fact that one suddenly builds up fear and is concerned." Paasch said in an interview with the

German press agency

. "At such a moment we really speak of a post-traumatic stress disorder, which can manifest itself by having many sad phases, not being able to sleep and not being able to concentrate."

Eriksen collapse at EM 2021 - sports psychologist: those affected must be accompanied by an expert

Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest just before the end of the first half on Saturday.

He had received emergency medical care on the square.

In the hospital, the Dane, who plays for Inter Milan, had stabilized.



Paasch said that the people affected by this incident would have to be professionally accompanied over a longer period of time.

“In such sudden moments, in emergency situations, it is very important that people dare to approach one another.

That means really listening, giving yourself a lot of space and communicating in some form, ”said Paasch.

The tip of the experienced sports psychologist: “You should write logs of how the players have behaved over the days.

How did they sleep, which topics of conversation move them? ”To do this, you have to bring someone on board who“ knows a lot about it therapeutically ”.

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Paasch made it clear that only a therapist can provide lasting help in such moments. “Because we don't really know what that can do with individuals in the long term. We have different experiences of insomnia, depression and many other factors that suggest that there was a sudden event. And that's why it's important to accompany the whole thing expertly. "



The Danish Football Association * had promised its players psychological help shortly after the European Championship game * on Saturday. “It's a traumatic experience,” said national coach Kasper Hjulmand. “We'll spend the next few days working on it as best we can. And of course there are professional people around us. ”On its website, the association specifically offered“ crisis aid to the players, Christian's family and everyone else in the men's national team ”.

(kam / dpa) * tz.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

Source: merkur

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