Quote from: inBitweTrust on February 16, 2015, 09:46:55 PM

Quote from: Bitcoin Sperg on February 13, 2015, 05:12:40 AM

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!

One could make a very convincing argument that most people overly rely upon various defense mechanisms and psychological coping techniques to mask the true horrors that represent reality.

I don't need to believe in any "fringe" conspiracy theories(as if the popularity of an idea had anything to do with its validity.) to justify a healthy amount of skepticism (or paranoia, if you prefer) based upon what is openly admitted. Read some Noam Chomsky or Christopher Hitchens and your eyes will be opened straight away.

I had many colleagues call me a tin foil hat nutter 10 years ago when leaks started coming out regarding NSA crimes and my healthy skepticism drew conclusions that now have all been vindicated and those detractors now have a case of Historical revisionism and claim of course the NSA was doing all those "activities" that is what their central role is.

Inbitwetrust, you are an order of magnitude more intelligent than the posturing OP. She is likely not worth any time. It is easy to dissect her post to reveal grammatical errors, uninformed and indefensible statistics, and hand-waving. Many in the list of disorders the idiot posts in her first paragraph are mutually exclusive and have little to no comorbidity.