How many people here suffer from a mental illness?

I actually want to see some doctor but I'm too lazy for it. I'm leaning towards 'I have one'
If it turns out that there's nothing, good. If there is, er, better(?)

Generalised anxiety disorder. It was hard enough to get that diagnosis because doctors were largely uninterested unless I went on meds. I tried counseling a few times but obviously they can't do much if you don't open up, and I honestly can't find a way to be open without sabotaging myself with second-guessing and ultimately falling into habitual "oh it's just me being weak and stupid" thinking. I have given up on the idea of people being able to see the outline of the real me without it being subject to hamfisted judgement of some kind, not even out of malice, but an incapacity to grasp the shape of my issues. I cannot blame them, even I can't properly do that, and I meditate frequently on the matter to try see the sources, the process and the result. But the inner critic is too strong, and I make an unreliable narrator that only ends up parroting the worst barbs from my history. Shame, guilt, fear and disconnection are the things that shape my life.
But you learn to smile convincingly, speak with some level of charisma, and make smalltalk. Protect them from your sadness, it isn't their responsibility. The issues so many years in a holding pattern won't be altering soon, after all.

Gaming is a hobby but it is also a source of escapism. Different media engages you in different way, and being able to have input and get immediate feedback from your escapist poison of choice can really help an overactive mind stay focused, or distract from thoughts or emotions that hound you, be they of a more normal variety, or intrusive thoughts or somewhat misaligned emotions. TBH if not for videogames my path would have been far far harder, and assuming I was able to survive it, the side effects it left upon me may have been more severe.

Very High Depression and and very high anxiety, battling for little bit more than 5 years now...they kinda ruined my life, not much left here, keto helped me to get into better state but I do need to find right, good therapist, didnt had luck before and for long period I wouldnt leave my house at all, no job, lost many friends...,so therapist was something I could just dream of, now for me at least diet/keto - no carbs, helps me a lot, plus I can excersice and fianlly I can try therapy again and maybe new medication.

i wouldn't say i suffer, but i am affected

It stands to reason, doesn't it. Gaming is an addictive behavior - not always of course, but often enough to join that category - and addictive behaviors are known risk factors and/or complications of mental disorders. Btw, financial difficulties are also know stressors for mental problems. No real surprise there.

We're all human. Stop labelling the way you handle life a mental illness.

Depression (it used to be pretty severe and I had to go to a mental institution to recover from it, now it's mostly kept in check by meds, although it still shows its ugly head now and then), hallucinations and fake memories (kinda rare and harmless, but they can be frightening sometimes), anxiety (super annoying). Lots of fun stuff :/

Well I had some mental issues but then I stopped playing league of legends. Now I am feeling much better.

Despite my lame joke I sympathize for all of the guys struggling with their depression and anxiety.

i am here xDDDDDD

Depression and Asperger's syndrome. I started to take medications to help with depression this autumn, and official diagnose on Asperger's will follow somewhere next year.

I've been suffering from mental health issues since I was a teenager (and it's not surprising to read everything here, thanks a lot for the topic).
I started at around 14 years old, althoug all my sporadic episodes already happened as a child.
My very first diagnoses referred to agoraphobia, social anxiety and a general depression.
I started taking psych meds (prescription drugs, psychopharmaceuticals) at 14-15 years old. The first time I got hospitalized I was unable to leave my house and I was taken out from ambulance operators.
I spent many years (combined, with many periods at home of course) into private mental health clinics, although in Northern Italy sanity is free so they were both approved by the national and regional health service so we didn't have to pay almost anything (my meds have always been free since I was a teenager).
I started for a period with psychologists, then got to psychiatrists and started taking tons of medicines. I took psych meds from 14 to 27 years old, when I chose to stop. Of course they varied, I defeated many illnesses and dropped for instance meds taken for panic attacks, agoraphobia and depression while I kept on taking those for social anxiety, borderline personality disorders and other problems.
I have been suffering from chronic self-injury addiction from around 16 years old to 26-27 and it's a miracle I still can use many of my body parts.
Thanks to lots of private and public doctors (neurologists too), hospitalizations and effective treatments I managed to defeat many of the mental health issues I've been diagnosed of between the ages of 14 and 19-20: self-harm, body dysmorphia, agoraphobia, panic attacks (one can't imagine how many years I spent into defeating panic attacks..), insomnia and some other ones.
I have still been suffering only of two mental health disorders, namely borderline personality disorder and major depressive disorder (as the psychiatrists here in Northern Italy and Switzerland say, at least, maybe in another continent I'd be diagnosed with something else).
Though, I stopped to take any kind of psycho drugs at the age of 27 as I said since I had defeated most of the problems that stopped me to have a sane life and to do whatever I want.
I still suffer from those two illnesses, but I've got no more panic attacks, I'm no more anxious when it comes to meet new people (although I'm asexual and extremely introvert, so I have no problems to do anything in public but it's extremely difficult for me to create real friendship and relationship bonds, but this isn't a mental health disorder!), I don't harm myself anymore.
On purpose I didn't want to talk about suicide.
Best of luck to all of you who are going through these periods, heavier or lesser periods, since every single one of us has to be treated the same, mental health disorders and illnesses are experienced in an extremely different way from one people to another one and we can't really talk about them if we don't take into account what really that singular person experiences. What for me can be something which I can live with (like my major depressive disorder), for someone else can be a nightmare impossible to bear. This goes with everything else.
Stay all strong, you'll never be alone and most of all RESCUE IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE, don't ever give up, don't ever isolate yourself, don't ever have fear since we're all worthy and we all deserve an awesome life, regardless of whatever else, nothing matters at all when it comes to this topic. We all deserve health and happiness. Don't be afraid of anything, since everything will be possible to heal and if it's not possible at the present time (as I said I still live with depression and BPD) it's still possible to keep on healing AND having an awesome life, trust me.
Don't give up.
<3

I'd say 99,99%

I have Tourette's syndrome and major low functioning depression as a consequence. Like, actual diagnosed depression, not internet depression. Currently not under treatment as i can't afford a psychiatrist. Used to take several antidepressants, but none of them really work.
For the Tourette i'm under haloperidol, but it exacerbates the depression and i'm slowly becoming resistant to it.

we can start a group for ourselves :)

No, I'm fine.

I was diagnosed with PTSD early on in life, which has all but vanished over time, thank god. I was later diagnosed with Chronic Depressive Disorder (severe) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder, which is so severe that any medical professional I have seen about it calls it "profound" instead of simply severe. Medication and therapy help a little, but I can't live a normal life.

I would say that this kind of community would be more likely to attract people with disabilities, yes. Somewhere I can go to talk to people without being judged as well as somewhere I have a chance at playing the games I hear "normal" working people talk about.

Depression, diagnosed. Therapy ongoing.

i think alot of people with mental illness gravitate to games but sadly some gravitate to drugs/drinking to help deal with headaches, hallucinations, and voices or just to escape life.

i feel gaming helps with depression and some other illnesses as you can play a epic hero or escape into a fantasy world .

OCD, social anxiety, general anxiety, and depression. whoop whoop

One of the reasons I play games is because they let me put things into order in a way that outside life doesn't generally allow.

If the guy in that run-down clinic nearby who said I had "depression" (just "depression", when I asked if he meant "clinical depression" he said there was only one type of depression) and then prescribed me medicine against schizophrenia is to be believed, then I guess I do "officially" have at least one mental disorder. Yay.

On a less snarky note, I've already spend more than a year after "finishing" uni doing nothing useful and going on about how everything is pointless and everyone I care about will die one day while I'm there to see it, so I'll let you guys decide if the psychiatrist I went to was correct or not.

generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety, and PTSD. I'm not on meds (my last doctor diagnosed me, then refused to prescribe me even a SSRI because I wouldn't agree to a depression diagnosis... because I'm usually in a good mood and don't have symptoms of it lol But he 'never heard' of prescribing SSRIs for anxiety). So I'm looking for a new doctor, but being in a rural area is working against me. So to manage my issues, I rely on marijuana. I know several growers who don't mind keeping me supplied because of my issues, and it works the best for me to manage the anxiety and PTSD (I've tried SSRIs, but weed has always worked best without the side effects I used to get with meds).

Main reason I game is because it's relatively cheap, and it's relaxing. Between reading and gaming, it helps me manage my stress since just sitting and doing nothing/watching TV makes me anxious (can't say why, it just does until I end up a full blown panic attack. Which sucks because I used to be a huge movie buff ._.)

edit: Should add I'm on a waiting list for new patients with a psychiatrist who recently came into the area, but apparently the list is pretty long. I'm hoping he can eventually see me and give me some new options as far as meds. Or even just a referral to a doctor licensed to prescribe medical marijuana if we can't find a good medication fit for me