As part of Sky Sports News' Real Talk series, Henry Slade talks about how OCD impacted his life on and off the pitch.
For Henry Slade, there was nothing unusual about his daily routine he had undertaken since childhood. Looking back, however, the England rugby union international now knows there were signs of something he needed to address. Speaking to Sky Sports News as part of the Real Talk series, Slade opened up on how he came to realise he had obsessive compulsive disorder and how speaking to some of his Exeter Chiefs team-mates led to him getting treatment.
'It was so ingrained in my life it naturally progressed into my rugby,' Slade said. 'The main part of where I feel it is getting changed for a game; I had a very specific way I had to tie my laces, certain times I had to tie the loops and pull the shoelaces, how tight I pulled it and things like that. 'The first time I ever tried to tie them normally, I messed up on what I had normally done and thought, 'it will be fine, don't worry about it'.
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