Disorder Affecting Tactical Competitors -- PRSD

[Forum Boss]

There's a disturbing new psychological issue for PRS/NRL competitors...

NIH Warns of Condition Affecting Tactical Shooters — PRSD « Daily Bulletin

With the growing popularity of tactical shooting competitions, unfortunately more and more young males are now suffering from psychological issues, some of which are quite serious.

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With the growing popularity of tactical shooting competitions, unfortunately more and more young males are now suffering from psychological issues, some of which are quite serious. For this reason, the National Institute of Healthe (NIH) recently published an advisory stating that health professionals should watch for worrisome issues that commonly arise with participants in PRS and NRL competitions:

“Notice: Individuals who compete in PRS/NRL activities may exhibit multiple mental and emotional issues. This is related primarily to competition stress and financial anxiety over excessive costs of PRS/NRL participation. We recommend immediate intervention, particularly if the individual is married.”

These PRS/NRL shooters may exhibit “anger, anxiety, and inability to control emotions” warned the NIH. This typically happens after a poor shooting performance or when the individual contemplates the vast sums of money he has spent on PRS/NRL guns, gear, optics and ammo. The anger and anxiety can be most extreme when a competitor is soundly defeated at the range by other shooters with very inexpensive rifles. This can create anger and even lead to violence or worse, suicidal thoughts.

Compulsive Spending Behavior Among PRS/NRL Participants
In addition, the NIH warned that the initial “rush” and thrill of PRS/NRL competition has lead to compulsive spending behavior, similar to a “gambling addiction”. The individual spends more and more money on gear and equipment when there is no good reason to do so and no performance gain. Analysts explain that the very act of shopping and spending provides an addictive brain reaction which can cause PRS/NRL participants to spend more and more money even after they stop shooting matches. The spending becomes compulsive.

Post Range Shooting Disorder — PRSD​

Analyzing the behavior and emotions of precision shooters, psychotherapists have adopted a new terminology for the mix of troublesome issues that PRS/NRL competitors exhibit in great numbers. The disturbed condition has been deemed “PRSD” which stands for Post Range Shooting Disorder (PRSD).

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[joshb]

Ha!!! I suffered from that when I found this forum! By “today’s woke standards of liability”, this forum owes me $75000 in damages!!!

 

[Spoonbill]

OMG! We have to get those guys some help! Please!

 

[sdean]

Ha!!! I suffered from that when I found this forum! By “today’s woke standards of liability”, this forum owes me $75000 in damages!!!

I'm close to that. Maybe start a class action.

 

[358WCF]

National Institute of Healthe?

 

[js2013]

PRSD is cured by winning. But the cure only lasts .... until the next match.

 

[Walt Krafft]

Happy 01/04

 

[DShortt]

Had me going for a minute.

 

[Bill Norris]

That was a pretty good one Boss. Bout had me there for a sec.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

I’m pretty sure all of us have been diagnosed for this already by our spouses.

 

[D-4297]

Worth a really good laugh after I glanced at the calendar . Thanks Boss !

 

[NZ_Fclass]

This was well known a few years ago, as F-Class syndrome. A variety of symptoms that mainly came from the beliefs that:

1) Spending large amounts of money would increase your score. Not recognising the fact that it was a diminishing return, and that despite the number of Bartlein barrels purchased, no more X's could be had than the maximum number of shots in the match.
2) That giving up a career to spend more time annealing brass and seating primers would be productive
3) That one day, Nightforce would make a scope that could read wind and that it would be allowed in the match.

 

[Downhill]

On the mainsite a few years ago there was an article on the ballistic benefits of dimpled match bullets. I wonder if those would help with PRSD.

 

[jackieschmidt]

It may be April First, but as a Short Range Benchrest Shooter, I have been suffering from this “condition” for close to 30 years.

 

[qldreloader]

Like many disorders it's the family members that suffer the most. It's important to support them just as much as the sufferer. I think I have a variant of the disorder at the moment that involves thermal scanners - it keeps me up at night.

 

[6.5 forever]

Had me going for a minute.

Dang that is funny!!

 

[jxb]

ROFL, had me wondering until I saw this "particularly if the individual is married" then I reminded myself it's 4/1

 

[shoot4fun]

UH OH!!!!
I was just contacted by a very good friend who runs the PRS matches in the area.
He said ATF has read about PRSD and have deemed anyone who has ever shot a PRS match as mentally unstable. They called him this afternoon demanding he turn over a list of the names of everyone who has attended one of his PRS matches so they can begin banning them from owning firearms!!!!!!!!
Some may even be arrested due to the fact they had to have lied on the 4473 when buying their guns!!!!

Well, this may have started out as an April Fools gag but it's gone horribly bad now!!!

 

[SEM]

hook line and stinker, for the first few lines anyway

 

[MasterYoda]

Something else to be aware of is the obsession with SD’s even when the target shows horrible results. “ But my SD’s are in the single digits “.