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mentally ill chess players?

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Originally posted by Arrak
also if your brave enough i'm just curious if your mentally ill and play chess and whats your rating and wheather a not you take meds or not?
Psychiatrists seem rather fond of trying to label people as "mentally ill", having one disorder or another....indeed, they tried to do the same to me, but no matter what they say, I refuse to take any meds!

My otb rating 2114...and should go up after my last tourney.

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The doctors all say I am mental, but the voices in my head disagree. 😞

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Originally posted by Arrak
so was paul morphy a schizo or not?
He was not schizophrenic. People who have schizophrenia suffer from delusions. Paul Morphy fell into extreme depression, but the medical knowledge of that time thought he was insane.

I have a dvd about the movement in the United States and the world by a group of people who call themselves "Psychiatrists". Every person should see this documentary!
www.cchr.org/documentary .

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it seems like most mentally ill chess players are med resistannt, thats interesting!

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I was misdiagnosed as Bi Polar. The meds I took for 2 years really jacked me up. I quit the meds, and I feel better than I did taking them.

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I got beaten up about 5-6 years ago and had some extreme neck and back pain and a headache that basically has never left(although has gotten better).

Can you believe it.. the doctor was trying to push me anti-depressants! I basically had to keep working in a very physical job until the pain got so bad I couldnt even understand what people were saying, my eyesight was wrecked and black-outs started happening a bit. I ended up like a year on NO income and had no savings. It was lucky I had some friends.

I ended up selling my home and have been living off that ever since. Dont get me started on quacks, because some of them deserve a bullet in their heads!

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Originally posted by Gascraft
I got beaten up about 5-6 years ago and had some extreme neck and back pain and a headache that basically has never left(although has gotten better).

Can you believe it.. the doctor was trying to push me anti-depressants! I basically had to keep working in a very physical job until the pain got so bad I couldnt even understand what people were saying, my ...[text shortened]... ever since. Dont get me started on quacks, because some of them deserve a bullet in their heads!
Amen brother...
www.cchr.org/documentary

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Originally posted by Ice Cold
I was misdiagnosed as Bi Polar. The meds I took for 2 years really jacked me up. I quit the meds, and I feel better than I did taking them.
What are the name of the meds did you take?

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Originally posted by GinoJ
What are the name of the meds did you take?
I didn't name the pills, I just took them. 😕

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Originally posted by Ice Cold
I didn't name the pills, I just took them. 😕
Lithium?
Valporate(Depakote)?
Carbamezapine(Tegretol)?
Lamotrigine ?
or some other mood stabilizers?

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Originally posted by Arrakis
Being diagnosed as "bi-polar" does not mean you are mentally ill my friend. Of course the doctors want you to think you are - especially if you have good health insurance. They want you to be "sick" so they can continue to make money from your health insurance.

If you want to get better then you need to look at the options available to you. PM me if you are interested in alternatives.
Don't tell me, you're a scientologist, I always knew there was something wrong with you, but I couldn't put my finger on it before..

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Originally posted by Arrakis
He was not schizophrenic. People who have schizophrenia suffer from delusions. Paul Morphy fell into extreme depression, but the medical knowledge of that time thought he was insane.

I have a dvd about the movement in the United States and the world by a group of people who call themselves "Psychiatrists". Every person should see this documentary!
www.cchr.org/documentary .
There is some evidence to suggest that Morphy was schizophrenic. He was troubled by voices with which he would converse, he was also deeply paranoid, to the extent of delusional, which is an attendant symptom of schizophrenia.

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Originally posted by Arrak
i was diagnosed with bi-polar a couple of years ago. for the first 2 years i didn't take meds. but for the last year i have been taking meds. i found that since being on meds my rating has dropped 100 points and i'm not able to play as much chess as i used to. which sucks, but i still enjoy it!

are their any professional, GM's or IM's or just really g ...[text shortened]... entally ill and play chess and whats your rating and wheather a not you take meds or not?
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Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Bobby Fischer is a nutter.

Nuff said. 😕
Maybe not enough...

Morphy was crazy and killed himself.

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Originally posted by Red Night
Morphy was crazy and killed himself.
No he didn't.

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