Is This Kind Of Behaviour With Respect To Gaming For Real?!

Hi All,

I was cleaning my room up a little,which I don't do nearly enough.I came across an old "Monster Manual" from "D&D".it reminded me,that several years ago when I would play with a group of friends.I remember this on campaign that four of us were playing.

There was this one cat named Rolly that was using a "Monk".Our "DM" set us in a village before we went out to explore some swamp or something,the next day.We were at an "Inn" where Rolly met another "Monk".The "Monk" had been poisoned or something,and our "DM" gave Rolly the chance to save this guy from dying by means of "Rolling" the dice.

Long story short,he wasn't successful,and the "Monk" died.Next thing I notice,Rolly is in tears by his failure to help another "Monk".(I mean tears in reality,not in character.)In all fairness,we were all a little intoxicated,and booze tends to make some people a tad emotional,so we never thought much of it,and continued playing.Around dinner time the next day when we woke up,we decided to get together and continue on.

When we met up,Rolly was still quite upset about failing to help out a fellow "Monk"!I couldn't believe it.This triggered something in my mind that I saw on TV once about people who cannot separate "Fantasy from Reality".Is this real mental condition?If so,does it extend to "Video Games?

God Bless,
MR.KAZ

Kaz the short anwser is yes.
The long anwser is there a variety of disorders that could cause both or either halucations and delusion and it's they have been know to incorporate things from tv and movies into them.
The only example I know of is Ohio highway sniper the guy had a history of suffering paranoid schizophrenia including delusion and halucations. Personaly this one I don't think they blamed his parents enough I realize that he was an adult but if you have a paranoid schizophrenia child who's condition is so bad they can't live on there own you shouldn't be buying them guns and violent video games that was just asking for trouble.

It's not necessarily that. Some can become absorbed into something to the point where they are emotionally attached, and though something may only be happening in fiction, the emotional attachment remains as if it were real.

I know I act that way when I get really into something.

Hell Scyth said:

It's not necessarily that. Some can become absorbed into something to the point where they are emotionally attached, and though something may only be happening in fiction, the emotional attachment remains as if it were real.

I know I act that way when I get really into something.

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I get that way too sometimes in the moment that it's going on and it last may acouple of hours after I'm done at the most. However if your developing the kind of emotional attachement his friend seems to get with random a ncp it probably indicates there is an underlying problem.

True.

In that case, a psychologist is recommended... or at least that's what I hear people suggest.