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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon_Dahl" data-source="post: 5891685" data-attributes="member: 89822">I've been playing RPGs for about 10 years. During my time I've noticed that a significant portion of players and GMs tend to have mental health issues. And in this case I count substance abuse also as a mental health issue.My very first GM who showed me the ropes was addicted painkillers and couldn't hold a job. He has been mostly unemployed during the past 10 years. Our original group withered to oblivion when one of the players was diagnosed with schizophrenia. And this trend has continued throughout my playing career. At one point I did have a relatively sane group, but nowadays half of my group has some "stuff" in their past (homelessness, alcoholism, spending some time in asylum etc.). One player was particularly bad, really depressed. I let her go. But I have to say that her crazy stuff was really bugging me, but I couldn't say anything to her. How could I?I can't say that I've had so many hobbies in my life, but I've had some. Well I guess being a football referee was the only social hobby that I had... But anyway, IME I don't see this sort of stuff in other past-time activities. At least not to the same extend.Has anyone else noticed that our hobby has unusual high percentage of mentally unstable people or is it just me? Or do you think I'm drawing the wrong conclusions?</blockquote>