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Message: [QUOTE="This Fish Chums, post: 5413782, member: 359399"] I've absolutely used poker as a means to escape my problems. When I've been at my worst, poker has been one of the things that has given me brief periods of rest where I can drown out my problems and focus on another reality for a while. However, I had learned that this also comes with a consequence. I used to get horrendously angry when I would lose (like punch the monitor angry). I was so consciously focused on the fact that poker was my escape that when I lost poker there was this mass of anger and even fear that I now had to go back to facing my real world problems. While poker is a massive relief from life problems, I needed to learn to enjoy it while it lasted and not be consciously afraid of it ending, which massively detracts from both the enjoyment of it and the ability to play well. [/QUOTE]