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Originally Posted by Birchinio
I think a lot of it stems from being so out of touch with reality. Talking about making $350k in a few months but being depressed. That's not depression. That's someone being out of touch whining about their life.
As someone else said they should try getting up everyday for a ****ty 9-5 and see how they feel then. Intelligent enough to win at poker but not enough to realise how good their situation is.
You're right about the hate, 100%, but that $ is not mutually exclusive with depression. Depression is driven by anxiety and chemistry within the body, different from feeling sad about your life situation.
I wonder what the rate of major depression among successful poker pros (as opposed to the gambling public) vs. the general public is. I think playing poker for a career causes changes in the brain that science hasn't yet pinpointed.
Read an interesting study talking about how chess pro's utilize part of their brain during end-game scenarios that most people never access. I bet it's the same with poker and there are a handful of similar abnormalities. To be a top pro you literally need to train your brain to think and analyze information in a very specific way. Chemically speaking online poker (specifically bc of the speed & availability) provided a very unique reward system.
Last edited by Kidman411; 11-29-2016 at 01:22 PM.