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<blockquote data-quote="Shades of Green" data-source="post: 5243446" data-attributes="member: 3297">The strangest thing I've heard about identity (or, rather, reality perception) problems related to role-playing is the opinions I've heard from several mental-health professionals here in Israel about RPGs. While D&amp;D is generally considered by these professionals to be a harmless, even positive pastime, LARPing, for some reason, is considered to include people &quot;who can't distinguish well enough between reality and fantasy&quot;. This is quite funny, since I don't think that they have any negative ideas about improvizational theater, which, in practice, is extremely similar to LARPing.This prejudice goes so far that the IDF (the Israeli military) gives a reduced profile score to people who confess that they are LARPers due to &quot;mental health reasons&quot;. This has led to the misconception that the IDF is against RPGs in general, which is incorrect.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shades of Green, post: 5243446, member: 3297"] The strangest thing I've heard about identity (or, rather, reality perception) problems related to role-playing is the opinions I've heard from several mental-health professionals here in Israel about RPGs. While D&D is generally considered by these professionals to be a harmless, even positive pastime, LARPing, for some reason, is considered to include people "who can't distinguish well enough between reality and fantasy". This is quite funny, since I don't think that they have any negative ideas about improvizational theater, which, in practice, is extremely similar to LARPing. This prejudice goes so far that the IDF (the Israeli military) gives a reduced profile score to people who confess that they are LARPers due to "mental health reasons". This has led to the misconception that the IDF is against RPGs in general, which is incorrect. [/QUOTE]

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