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Saints' Ricky Williams Diagnosed With Disorder; Say's `I'm Extremely Shy'.(Brief Article)

Jet | June 4, 2001 | Copyright

Ricky Williams, New Orleans Saints running back, has social anxiety disorder, but what this means to him is, "I'm extremely shy. I don't want to call it anything else."

Williams, 24, said he met with a psychiatrist about two months ago and was diagnosed as depressed. He said he began taking medication about a week ago.

"As we talked more, we got into the fact that I had a problem in social situations," Williams told the Times-Picayune of New Orleans.

Williams, the 1998 Heisman Trophy winner, said such behavior as wearing a helmet during interviews his…

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