I have depression and I play poker to improve my life. When I'm playing, I forget everything and I feel good!
What is your opinion about people who play poker and have depression?
Difficult life conditions my put you in depression. These conditions may arise due to situations where you find yourself helpless and can't find a way to redress. Health, wealth,emotions or social matters are often involved to produce depression. Since you can't solve the problem so a thinking pattern grows where you repeatedly think of problems and what consequences it may generate.
To get out of depression you need to face the issues constructively but your mind can't think positively due to heavy negative impact of the situations. At that time it is often suggested to take your mind away from the situation at least for some time.
I think playing poker can do that job. Temporarily you are out of the problems and out of depression. And when you come back to your problems you might be thinking differently and probably you can find a solution.
The idea is, if you are surrounded by problems, you will see problems everywhere. But if you see your problems from outside you might come up with a solution which you missed while inside the problem.