10 Personality Disorders of Chess Players

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Twpsyn wrote:
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All a diagnosis is is you going to a doctor and telling him what's wrong with you and then he translates it into some kind of Latin or Greek pidgin nonsense.

 

Yurm no. My autism diagnosis included developmental reports, screening with the AQ and EQ (Baron-Cohen), friendship quiestionare, social stories questionnaire, DISCO and a cognitive assessment report.  Also if you think it’s easy getting an official diagnosis for let’s say schizophrenia, I suggest you visit a psychiatrist and try and convince him/her. 

My experience with doctors is entirely limited to physical ailments, like when you go and say you have a pain in your chest and he tells you you have angina pectoris....which means exactly what you told him but in Latin and for $300.

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DrSpudnik wrote:

My experience with doctors is entirely limited to physical ailments, like when you go and say you have a pain in your chest and he tells you you have angina pectoris....which means exactly what you told him but in Latin and for $300.

@DrSpudnik - amaaazing, we're patients of the same doctor! evil.png

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There's a lot of that going around.

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mgx9600 wrote:

In game, if one gets too involved, there is negative consequences. In work, if one gets too involved, there's negative consequences too but at least there you are compensated with money or something.

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i have the 12th one

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I got BPD and it hurts pretty badly losing a game. Tears, emotional pain, self-harm. No other games have provoked this so badly ever in my life (and I played a lot of Dota 2 in the past). I got a horrible lose streak now and every lose was taken with a lot of emotional pain, I couldn't resist not to self-harm myself. It even gives me thoughts of suicide. I generally feel very uncomfortable, powerless and worthless losing in a game that became escape from existential horror that my life is.

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bong711 wrote:

Source. Wikipedia

Pity you've gone so I can't argue with you in person.

It seems that the person who wrote the Wiki article is confusing people who primarily identify with their self-image as "chess players" and the rest, who merely play chess or who enjoy playing chess as a method of relaxation, self-improvement or whatever.

Without spending too much time analysing the descriptions of sub-par attitudes and behaviour, I'd suggest that the writer of the article places himself in cluster C: basically an avoidant personality disorder, since it is probably through not getting to know people who play chess that the writer makes the mistake in the first place. I didn't like the look of the clusters either and thought they were internally inconsistent. Maybe I'll get my wife to take a look, since she's a psychologist and has just retired. She was actually a practising psychotherapist, very well thought of in her field, so I imagine she could be interested in working out what might have been wrong with the O.P. and the writer of the Wiki article, too.

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Clusters. Always with the clusters!

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There are clusterheads and cluster freaks.

They may be different but that's all I know.

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Don't forget nut clusters! Chocolaty deliciousness.