grinding and mental health effects - Page 2

kpop/jpop or whatever music fail lol.

A bunch of TANLENTLESS HOES FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

hm

grinding isn't tough. 20 tabling 100nl is a lot easier than a job with lots of responsibility. personally Ive found it a lot more stressful to have that responsibility than playing poker. With poker you can set your own hours and shit.

and i have to agree with sawseech. Anyone who whines about this is a faggot.

just smoke weed man

when i see pretty kpop stars i tell myself "these girls dont even shave" ugh.

Perhaps the really troublesome thing about poker as career is dealing with swings. I don't play full time so I can't speak for this. But I had thought about it and I think best way to address this is to live a very healthy life. Eat healthy, exercise, participate in any activities that are productive and interesting. If you run bad for a week and you just sit at home, I don't think it would do much good for your mental health. It's best to get out there and let it out, channel the frustration somewhere else. I think feeling good about oneself is really important.

On March 21 2010 11:06 rozyboy wrote: I dont know if there was a post on this already, but this goes for all of you 10 tabling 10 hour grinders: how do you deal with the mental effects of sitting in front of the computer all day, not going out, the stress, and the physical inactiveness? isn't this the most unhealthy way on earth to make a living? what are you guys doing to keep your sanity/physical health?

do stuff with the time youre not playing poker.

On March 21 2010 16:20 Bejamin1 wrote: How do people play WoW... it doesn't even make them money.

that is wrong, my friend made a fair ammount of money with it. Its just like diablo 2, you can sell stuff to noobs who really want it

too long didn't read, 10 hours a day grind with no transportation time and the ability to eat while u work sounds like an ez job. if u sleep 8 hours a day u have 6 free hours a day. U can watch 2 movies and go out to a bar and get drunk with friends every single night. Wow sick free time wtf are u complaining about. I used to pull 14 hour days for a month straight or one summer when i had to pay for school 15/16 hour days 13 days every 2 weeks. Didn't have any bad mental health effects. It depends on how clear your goals are partially. I was making serious progress when I was paying off college. Having such a goal and plan will stave off an existential depression. However, when all your needs are already met and making money will no longer feel like progress and you're not getting enough social contact existential depression will set it. It has it's evolutionary purposes. They say even clinical depression helps to stimulate procreation. If poker is giving you that free time or that sense that you have your immediate needs met... then the problems that arise from that are not something you should blame on poker. You should thank poker for allowing them to be realized and hopefully fixed by finding meaning in your life. If the mental problems are other types of mental problems, I'm guessing they would exist in any similar lifestyle. Personally poker has never been a stressful job for me but for poker players who aren't making good money I can imagine it would be stressful. If you are in that later category, it's not poker, it's you and you should find a new profession. You should really turn to wiki or psychology forums about these things instead of LP though

jack off

existential depression is fucked up thing

i dont see how grinding 10h/day is any problem if you have social life

i mean srsly 5h sess -> 30m break -> 5h sess - > 4-6 for bars/clubs/cafes/gym/training/woteva -> 7.5-9.5 hrs sleep

ofc i dont see anyone lasting long without social contacts
which makes me curious
there was a prop bet in 2+2 a guy wanted to spend 1 month without any human contact in his room i wonder if the bet went through and what happened to the guy

Just dont play 10/hrs a day would be the first step, and have a good sleeping schedule when you can spend some time outside during the day. Sun is very important for the human mind for some reason and I know that because I just spent an entire winter in darkness and now that the sun is starting to come out I feel much better. Kinda hard in israel tho since may-oct is pretty much hell, but now the weather is pretty good so you should take advantage of it. And I dunno go to the pool,beach start working out, eat delicious israeli food, get fat, work out more etc

Seriously there is no need to grind out 10 hrs a day, even half that would be hard. If you are in the mentality you need to grind that much thats probably adding a lot of stress too. Take your time and if you are grinding for sne or some shit consider stopping, there is not enough money in the world that is worth your mental sanity, cheers.

what i found to be really helpful is going to the casino to play live poker. It helps you get out of the house and you still play poker.

On March 22 2010 12:44 JohnnyBologna wrote: what i found to be really helpful is going to the casino to play live poker. It helps you get out of the house and you still play poker.

pretty much best response ever :D

I get so depressed looking at those people playing house games. Old people on slots is like the worst.

NO ONE plays 10h a day, maybe 1 out of every 10, 000 players does, this is not common practice

10k is probably generous, look at all of here and 2p2 and how many players u find playing 10 hours day after day?

factor in the additional sleep requirements for brain tax and it's more like 13 hours a day and having absolutely no body clock.

i'd guess 1:44980

don't sne chase like me, i do end up playing 10 hour days if i'm stuck and chase my losses and shit, its usually 3-5 hours a day on average though, so not too bad.