Millie Farrow: 'OCD almost ended my football career, at England camps I was mentally drained' 🎙️ samcunningham meets the former Chelsea and Crystal Palace striker
Exhausted, she left the room and went straight to see the doctor, bursting into tears as she told him about her OCD. “To this day I don’t believe that he understood, but how could he? I didn’t even understand and I was the one experiencing it,” Farrow writes.
“At every club I’ve been at it’s been the same story. It would get to a point where it would be: this is too much. I’d have these breakdowns and wouldn’t know what to do with myself and that’s when I needed to seek a lot of help.” “That was the reason why I tried to hide the cleaning a lot, because I knew it would make them feel stress and sadness for me,” she says. “It’s not a great place to be. They saw the breakdowns and the anger outbursts I’ve had.”
“Whether it was I need to wash my hands, I need to clean this, I need to know if you touched that. The thing is with it, if I didn’t, if I tried to fight it. If I was like no, I’m not going to wash my hands. F*** you, I’m not going to do it. I’m not going to listen. And I didn’t wash my hands. The feeling and thought would get stronger.”Farrow has bravely detailed her experiences and is speaking tonow to show young boys and girls that the route to professional football is not always easy.
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