give me a break wrote:
I must be the only one on this board who thinks this thread is absolutely disgusting.
These are the facts:
- Mary Cain said she cut herself.
- Mary Cain said she cut herself in front of a teammate and the teammate did nothing.
- Mary Cain said she told Al Sal she was cutting herself, and Al Sal did not take any kind of action.
- Mary Cain said she missed her period for 3 years due to NOP training regimen.
- Mary Cain said she suffered 5 fractures related to health issues caused by NOP training regimen.
- Mary Cain said the sports psych for the team was not a registered psych, and was just one of Alberto's friends, alluding to how this individual did not help her.
- Unnamed pro said Mary Cain was a wuss.
- People on Let's Run call Mary Cain a narcissist.
- Mary Cain tried to rejoin NOP in April 2019 (corroborated by Mary Cain herself on Twitter).
It's pretty sad that people here are crushing this girl. It seems that emotionally she didn't have a good support system for herself while in NOP so she leaned very heavily on the group to provide it, but that wasn't its intent. It explains why she wanted to go back despite the abuse. This happens in abusive relationships all the time. It would explain how she could have been abused, and yet wanted to go back. People are dismissing her claims because she wanted to go back. But this is just one plausible explanation for her behavior and why her claims shouldn't be dismissed because of wanting to rejoin NOP.
We don't know what happened at NOP with her, but to not give her the benefit of the doubt is pretty heartless. Is she a narcissist? Maybe. But we'd also need evidence to support that. Speculation is not evidence. Narcissism is a clinically diagnosed personality disorder that can only be diagnosed by professionals, not Lets Run board posters.
If you dont know what happened at NOP , how do you know how team mates reacted ? It's also not a team. Each person has there own contract , and not required to Nanny a teen .