Suburban Warrior Syndrome

[GrayIguana]

Here's an article I noticed on MSN, and I thought some might find it interesting. Though the article doesn't specifically mention RPGs or D&D, it does mention gaming as a source of stress relief.

http://articles.health.msn.com/id/100108134?GT1=7003

 

[The Shaman]

Excellent! Thanks for posting the link.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

A very interesting article. It's nice to see immersion in fantasy recognized as a healthy coping mechanism, rather than pure avoidance.

 

[Dingleberry]

Good article, and right on the money. Gaming definitely took on more of an escapism/stress relief aspect when we moved from a swanky high-rise in the city to picket fence suburbia and had a kid. To quote Snow Crash:

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest mother f- in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven...​

Suburbia is my Raven.