I pick… neither! Or more that it depends on whether they are a good or bad player, not so much what profession they are in.

Are we talking about a doctor/nurse with a mental disorder, or his colleague down the corridor who is treating him?

Sounds like a false dichotomy … but the more people who sign up and play GNE, the better. Let’s not rest until Eric’s wife and kids are using hundred dollar bills whenever they run out of dinner napkins.

Agreed!

What makes you think there aren’t already some playing? (Pre-Feb.1, of course…)

Eleanor, they would have found the urge to form a GNE addict support group irresistable; that’s what makes me think there weren’t any in the alpha.

I suppose it’d be ok…as long as they shared, (not their psycho-insight, just their shekels, pies and potions of skill of course!)

P.S. I missed the big ending, I didn’t get to say good-bye, and I sorta miss you guys! See you soon!

Not necessarily, Loli. A support group for any substance or addiction is generally run with the purpose of removing the addictive thing from the group members’ lives.

While I joked about a support group for gne addicts, I never would have joined one. I had no desire to recover.

Ultimately (in my opinion, which isn’t worth much) it shouldn’t matter what someone’s profession is when they play the game. I could easily see mental health professionals playing to escape from the stress of their jobs.

While I don’t see how it would really matter in the end, it would be rather funny if they tried to cure us from the GNE..
“It’s addictive I tell you! You need to quit while you’re ahead!”
“Hmm, tell us something we don’t know.. And I am ahead, I’ve got 4 times the xp as you!”

Hmmm… how do I relate to my mother? Was I close to my father? Am I sure that a cigar is just a cigar?

We digest the remnants of squandered years, dining on broken eggs and the scribbled notes of psychiatrists who are on trial for offenses whose names are not to be spoken in polite company. It is night and the waned moon, shy, does not reflect in any of the eyes that they found in the ambiguous machinery on the mesa. Not in any of them.

I can’t help but wonder if Loli thinks we need this mental professional to deal with me :-D

But there are/were… .

Of course, this question leads me to wonder whether there are mental health professionals playing more “serious” MMORPGs like Evercrack or Ultima Online, and if they are fully aware of their own gaming addiction and how they feel about it.

Also, wouldn’t it be cool if ITRG someone set up shop as a online shrink? He could give out a pie with every session.

Nah, I’m going to run group therapy sessions, ala The Simpsons, where participants can use various implements of destruction to ease their problems with each other (and to provide valuable info for my graduate thesis, heh heh heh).