How Many Bitcoiners are Mentally Ill?

[kingama]

Pure gold. Any bets on when Bitcoin makes it into the DSM-IV?

[Uncle Axetime]

Pure gold. Any bets on when Bitcoin makes it into the DSM-IV?

When the banksters and governments get desperate enough, they will indeed call us 'mad' and 'turrists', anything to try and squash us.

This op has been slipped a tenner by a Rothschild minion to make very obvious anti-bitcoiner assertions.

We should watch out for the moderately less obvious ones who are so harming the thing, such as USGavin.

[Whitehouse]

It's probably more akin to being passionate or just looking for excitement than being actually mentally ill, though I don't doubt there are some crazy people here. Some people also act nuts when there's money involved. Maybe they're just delusional or stupid, but not usually mentally ill.

[Q7]

LOL....I'm one of them. I suffer from some kind of bitcoin paranoia disorder where it will make me check the price every hourly and sometimes when it gets worse, I will stare at the same page.

[Nancarrow]

Just briefly glancing through here it seems like anywhere from 15-25% could be diagnosed as morbidly paranoid, with 5% of that as full bore schizophrenia. There's also a great deal of mania in this forum, with the other subforums exhibiting mania/depression or both depending on the subject. It's difficult to parse through a forum but it just seems like an unusually large number of posters here are suffering from some combination of narcissistic/victim personality disorder, either resulting from social isolation, autism spectrum diseases, substance abuse (perhaps bitcoin's primary use) or PTSD.

Has anyone elucidated the link between bitcoin and mental illness? How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large? I'm seriously asking because the idea of a currency that specifically draws the unstable members of society is fascinating from a social psychology perspective. There are certainly a very high number of sociopaths leading the bitcoin community (which explains the continuous scams and thefts of the beta member resources). Anyway if there are any normal members here you might want to commission a social worker to survey this forum for potential suicide/homicide risks or a psych researcher to try to and determine what factors of the bitcoin system are selecting for dredges. Cheers! 

Forget it Jake, it's The Internet.

Actually the egomania/narcissism quotient dropped considerably when Mircea Popescu's sock buggered off a few months ago. Then this blocksize limit thing started and it's gone right back up again, for the corresponding reason.

[vapourminer]

Has anyone elucidated the link between bitcoin and mental illness? How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large?

oooh! pick me! pick me!!

oh, wait..

[JorgeStolfi]

I think if you're at all capable of grasping bitcoin, the whole concept, in the first place, there's little damn chance you're at risk of being mentally ill. The required level of intelligence to understand bitcoin, the foundation of bitcoin, the blockchain, the point, the nuances of economics, and the dynamics of bitcoin is not a sign of a weak mind susceptible to mental illness.

(1) Intelligence does not imply sanity and vice-versa.  And neither of them implies honesty.

(2) It does not take much intelligence to understand bitcoin at the level that most "expert bitcoiners" do. 

The idiots in comment sections who continually call people names, troll these and similar forums hollering bitcoin's end times and have nothing else to do but post over and over day in and day out trying to warn everyone against it, it's in its "death throws" as one put it in a comments section earlier - now those ones are soft in the head and could probably make do with a visit to a psychiatrist.  

Who should see a psychiatrist: the guy who believed in "10'000 USD/BTC by Nov/2014" and mortgaged his home to buy bitcoin at 800, or the guy who didn't believe and didn't buy?

[tss]

at least it seems like an original post.  a breath of fresh air on troll island.

[johnyj]

The quality of the troll posts are dropping

[A.F.K]

Let's not forget sociopathy.

[saddambitcoin]

How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large? I'm seriously asking because the idea of a currency that specifically draws the unstable members of society is fascinating from a social psychology perspective. There are certainly a very high number of sociopaths leading the bitcoin community (which explains the continuous scams and thefts of the beta member resources). Anyway if there are any normal members here you might want to commission a social worker to survey this forum for potential suicide/homicide risks or a psych researcher to try to and determine what factors of the bitcoin system are selecting for dredges. Cheers! 

LOL at this thread.

I'm sure it will offend some people to admit it, but when I examine my facts I suppose you are right. No doubt the insane highs and lows of the price can exacerbate the mania over these past few years. I wouldn't have it any other way! 

Me:

1. came to bitcoin partly because I was shut out of the normal economy

2. have been diagnosed with mental illness in the past, but i don't do anything about it because i think my state of mind is normal.

[galbros]

I doubt it is any worse than the population at large.  Internet forums lend themselves to outlandish comments.  Plus a lot of posts are pure rubbish to boost the users post count.

I think the relevant comparison would be with other forums anyway.

[Beliathon]

ALL OF US! GOOGILY DOOGILY!  

Seriously though, mother cultures makes us all insane, yourself included reader.

How many American children are on antidepressants?

[jonald_fyookball]

the Bitcoin population ranges from the brilliant to the idiotic, from the scammers to the saints... same as the general population.

[Kprawn]

You think this is freaky... go to a BTC Meetup and see what is freaky. Everyone from NerdVana to VC's are crowding in to get the most attention.

You will also find the trolls... they the ones hiding in the corner and predicting the doom and gloom of the 51% attack and the demise of BTC based on the current price.

Then you get the groupies ..... they follow the keynote speaker around as if he/she is a rock star! 

After the event, they gather here on the forum with ALL their new found wisdom and post brilliant new insight into the world of crypto currency.

You just have to love the Bitcoin World!

[addy nagar]

70-60% bitcoins are mentally ill...they just want to earn a lot of coins and soke are thinking how fast they can earn but they are not even thinking how will they going to do this?didi it have any risk or not etc etc

[JorgeStolfi]

70-60% bitcoins are mentally ill...

Bitcoins are fungible, so in fact all of them are mentally ill.  They got that way by being bound with a chain, behind a wall of blocks, since they wer born.  They hate their owners; if they are let go, they will not return, not even look back and say thanks. 

[MikeCorleone]

70-60% bitcoins are mentally ill...they just want to earn a lot of coins and soke are thinking how fast they can earn but they are not even thinking how will they going to do this?didi it have any risk or not etc etc

Where'd you get this figure from? I'd assume much less like in the fiat world.

[turvarya]

You think this is freaky... go to a BTC Meetup and see what is freaky. Everyone from NerdVana to VC's are crowding in to get the most attention.

You will also find the trolls... they the ones hiding in the corner and predicting the doom and gloom of the 51% attack and the demise of BTC based on the current price.

Then you get the groupies ..... they follow the keynote speaker around as if he/she is a rock star! 

After the event, they gather here on the forum with ALL their new found wisdom and post brilliant new insight into the world of crypto currency.

You just have to love the Bitcoin World!

Austrian Bitcoin Meeting are fine. No trolls there.
But I guess, that is just because, we are still in an early stage.

[xDan]

QFT

One day, instead of being called mad, we may be called simply "lucky" [to have been in the right place at the right time].