Dontrelle Willis Placed On Disabled List: No Not Injury... Rather Anxiety

[GnatsFan]

Anyone have a problem with this? Whats to stop teams from: [insert Rich Hill scenario's if he struggles with control]

I'm not mocking anxiety disorders in anyway as they can be extremely brutal, but this seems rather... well... convenient? Unsubstantiated? Willis doesn't even seem to sound like he even knows he suffers from anxiety? [from the material I've read... gonna go search for more articles] Just sounds like he wandered into a lab and the was told the "bad" news later by a doctor: "Hey Dontrelle, we think you have an Anxiety Disorder"

Was this a diagnosis of a normal team trainer or, more importantly, a psychologist? If he was DL bound as a result of panic attacks... increased heart rate... depression....nausea...serious diagnosis by a psychiatrist or some indicator of an Anxiety Disorder I wouldn't really mind this, but citing an Anxiety Disorder as a result of a blood test? :slytf: Can you do that?

Is there something wrong with Willis' mentality with regards to on-the-field performance [overthinking]? I'm pretty sure there is, but does that warrant a trip to the DL? If Willis is suffering from something similar to what Greinke or Ricky Williams went through then I apologize and have sympathy, but I have a feeling it is more of a baseball related mental breakdown ala Chuck Knoblauch/Ankiel and the Tigers are intentionally using a serious mental illness as a cover and I find that repulsive.

Willis said the diagnosis was made through a blood test.

The Tigers placed the former 22-game winner on the 15-day DL Sunday morning with anxiety disorder.

With trade options nonexistent, that would've left the Tigers with two choices. They could've asked him to accept another Minor League option, which he could've declined to become a free agent, or they could've released him. Either way, they were responsible for the $22 million remaining on his contract through 2010, part of which could be covered by insurance.

"I'm never depressed," Willis said. "I've always been a high-energy guy. This is something totally different. I've always been a guy that's been upbeat, but they see something totally different. This isn't something where I'm too amped-up and I don't know where I'm at, running sprints up and down the parking lot. This is something where they see something in my blood they don't like.

"I'm not crazy. My teammates might think I'm crazy, but this is not something like that. This is something totally different that I'm concerned about. This is something in my blood."

http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090329&content_id=4083896&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb

[GnatsFan]

However, two doctors in the Detroit area interviewed by the Detroit News said there is no blood test available to diagnose anxiety.

"I can't speak of the specific situation, but to the best of my knowledge, you cannot diagnose an anxiety disorder by a blood test," Hiten Patel, a psychiatrist at William Beaumont Hospital, told the newspaper. "Most psychiatric conditions cannot be diagnosed by blood tests, and anxiety disorder cannot be diagnosed in such a way."

Taft Parsons, the medical director of the Kingswood Hospital, told the newspaper that anxiety might be a symptom of another medical condition that could be diagnosed with a blood test.

"There's no anxiety disorder, no psychiatric disorders, which are diagnosed by blood tests," Parsons told the newspaper. "But [anxiety] would not be the disorder itself. Only a symptom."

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2009/news/story?id=4025104

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[QBsILLEST1]

not knowing where u are is not anxiety disoreder....and they can not test any mental disorder through blood tests, that is ridiculous!