Do RPGs cause suicide/mental problems?
No. As with RPGs and crime, there is no evidence supporting this claim. This lack of evidence has been cited by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Health & Welfare Canada in the past. A variety of studies have shown gamers to be psychologically normal. Finally, there have been studies that suggest that blocking fantasy (in the general sense of daydreams, etc.) is more likely than accepting it to lead to psychosis. A person who has a pre-existing mental problem may find that an RPG interacts with their problem, but this is not unique to RPGs, and role-playing (a general category into which RPGs fall) is also used as a tool in psychotherapy.
