Did mental health affect your chess ratings?

No doubt the more strain on the prefrontal cortex the less it is able to execute the high order thinking which is required in chess. I think for similar reasons you see judges being much harsher giving sentences just before lunchtime, because tanking glucose levels deprives the PFC of the resources it needs to make decisions effectively. In a similar way being anxious or depressed means your brain, even at a subconscious level, is preoccupied with matters unrelated to chess and so can't devote its full attention to the task at hand. Primitive parts of the brain that deal with emotion can also in effect override the more rational, logical PFC.

No doubt the more strain on the prefrontal cortex the less it is able to execute the high order thinking which is required in chess. I think for similar reasons you see judges being much harsher giving sentences just before lunchtime, because tanking glucose levels deprives the PFC of the resources it needs to make decisions effectively. In a similar way being anxious or depressed means your brain, even at a subconscious level, is preoccupied with matters unrelated to chess and so can't devote its full attention to the task at hand. Primitive parts of the brain that deal with emotion can also in effect override the more rational, logical PFC.

Who needs human reasoning and cognitive thoughts when you’ve got algorithms to do all the thinking for you?
I hope algorithms aren't doing work for you in live matches lol

100%. I've been tilting in the past couple weeks and lost 300 bullet rating and 80 Rapid. I've also been under lots of pressure and anxious these past weeks. Chess normally helps but not this time.

Words of someone who hasn't had mental health issues. I did find it was affecting me negatively. When you don't have the confidence in yourself, it does affect your game.

Metal Health is such a cry baby term.

Mind set? Yes...Mental Health is just woke weakness.

Rub some dirt on it snow flake.

Clearly decades of psychological research and lived human experience pale in comparison to your expert level advice: "rub some dirt on it" Must be exhausting carrying around that level of ignorance? your advice is just emotional illiteracy dressed up as personality.

Given how weak and pathetic people have become, unable to tell the difference between a man and a woman..combine that with the inability of men to get married and raise a family....modern thoughts on such topics are clearly lacking in common sense.

You can talk about things all you like but you need to be a man no matter what. Don't feel up to work? Too bad you work anyhow.

Let me give you a hint....ratings go up and down because the lower you go the worse players you find. Win a bunch of games then you will lose because you find stronger opponents.

Women can stay in bed. Men must work through it.

... but real mental health struggles arent some modern invention or a sign of societal collapse? they’re part of being human, What has changed is that people are finally allowed to talk about them without being told to "man up" and stay silent, That’s not weaknessi ts progress ...

Agreed.

Also, suicide rates are statistically higher among males compared to females. Why might this be, we could ask?

Perhaps due to social stigmas in which men are expected to surpress their feelings and are often chastized for expressing them - or even for having them at all ...

Of course, we don't want to use our emotions as an excuse for everything. But emotional states are still valid, regardless of gender ...

You don't need to be crazy to play chess.

But it helps.

if you are not in chess...and mind are in other places..dont play chess!

resolve the distress and then play chess..it doesnt work with distress