hey man :) i didn’t expect to see you reacting to another one of my videos lol. i honestly had no clue what to expect going into this, but i came out pleasantly surprised. i had a good time listening to your own opinions, and watching us come to an understanding in real time was fun to watch. its cool that you’re studying psychology; i’m starting college soon to study that too! although im not sure if i want to be a psychotherapist. 🤔 thanks for sharing your thoughts, and thanks for enjoying the video. good luck on getting into coa!
As someone who has anxiety, for me it just comes naturally (when i play as hunter in rank). It's not about raging but overthinking or not having support in which i would have as a survivor. Which is why hunter rank in my opinion can be more stressful and i avoid it most if the time. I mostly just rank with friends or qm to make the game more fun. While i hope the community was alot more positive I hope others dont put themselves in that position of stress and i totally agree!!!
Ngl I agree that mental health matters especially when it comes to competitive game like idv. I remember once I got in mammoth for the first time I had people being mean left and right I was pretty new as well. I even got my first death threats and told to off myself. I always took a lot of mental health breaks because of how It affected me. Even now in griffin it's the same and it's just toxic that the community it self need to improve. 😭😭 Like I remember once I got out of high school I took a month break from ranking and playing idv because I needed it.
ignoring the toxic players is the best way🎉close the chat after the match 🤓🎉 I downloaded this game to have fun not to get mental health problems 😅 let them say whatever they want 😂😂😂after all this is still a game 😮😮🤷 ❤
@@sh_b7844 fully agree my duo usually when we get toxic players and they're rude they defend me a lot. But I just take deep breaths and move on and ignore it I heard there's a way to turn post chat off but idk how too.😭😭
@@LITTLEDOOFUS go to the chat then you will find icon ⚙️ like this in the right corner(up).you will find chat settings then you can close the post-match chat 😊
rank anxiety cuz of toxic teams. i didnt even realize how bad of people they were until later on n shi. pressure from them to "do better" and wanting to prove yourself to bad people. personal experience bc id assume other people dealt with mfs who will pressure you for a couple more rank points. fucking insane.💀💀 sorry if sounds like anything personal, its just a example to me bc it was on topic.😭 cant wait for the full wax artist stream!!
as a person with said anxiety disorder thankfully i only get anxiety when play hunter so i just dont play hunter and the reason is im playing hunter alone. playing with in teams gives me security a nd thats it i guess
I understand the logic behind hopping off a game if it gives you physical stress but it’s easier said than done. After using the game as a way to cope with real life issues and spending so much time on it it’s hard to just step away. Once you’re obsessed your mood depends on how you do, and if you do bad you force yourself to keep going because you need to prove to yourself that all that time and effort wasn’t for nothing. When you lose, you feel bad. It’s only normal for someone who doesn’t know better coping mechanisms or how to properly regulate their emotions to seek that high of a win. Lose = bad, Win = good. You get stuck in this cycle of self worth and need for that serotonin the only solution the person will rationalize is that winning will erase that bad feeling they got from losing. I just wanted to explain this to hopefully put it in a better perspective as someone who had those hunter rank jitters and have since learned the ability to step away and re access what’s best for me.
This game had a dead grip on me when i was 17, the height of the pandemic and my Mother being hospitalized for 2 months. This game takes a HUGE toll on you if you're not in a right place. I've stopped playing actively since 2022 now, I only watch gameplays or commentary about it like the ones Zeuz and Zeez posts. Please prioritize your own mental health over the game, it does impact you more than you think.
tbh its rly hard to describe the "rank anxiety" if you never felt it,as someone with diagnosed anxiety its just the fact that idv is such a big part of me and failing isn't just an "oh well it might happen" it just feels,as dramatic as this sounds,like im gonna be a failiure if i don't do well in this one thing/hobby that i made my own and everyones gonna see it with my wr and performance. its rly something i struggle with but i try and force it in my head that at the end of the day,it is just a game and its not worth it if it causes me to feel sick to my stomach every day.
personally i sometimes get rank anxiety only when i have to play alone because the lack of communication kinda stresses me out (not to the point i start shaking or anything though, it just makes me not want to rank). another thing is just the irritation you feel when you genuiely want to improve and win but you just can't because of some players' poor game sense. like sometimes it just gets to the point you dont feel like ranking because bad teammates cause you to go into rank already with "i know i cant count on those random people so i either need to count on myself or im going to lose" mindset. i started playing in duo/team more and it genuiely helps you stop getting so stressed since the communication is better which also makes your teamwork better
also dopamine rush is just addicting. you feel good when you win, so you want to keep winning because you want to feel good. and when you keep on doing bad, it stresses you out because you dont get the dopamine. so yeah its time to find an actual healthy way to get dopamine :3
Mental health really matters especially if you are ranking to get an S badge or any badge, I stopped playing idv for a couple of days bc I noticed that I was getting obsessed with ranking and in general ranking ON time.
i really appreciate you taking your time to react to this! i hope youre doing well with psych as well, i also have a goal of becoming a therapist/psychologist, so it makes me happy to see that one of my favourite streamers is aswell interested in it.
I didn't play rank consistently until this year, not really bc of anxiety but because of how easily frustrated i get (which affects my daily life in more ways than just a videogame). There have been times I've felt so frustrated I've been close to tears (specially bc i play hunter rank and i can't blame anyone but myself lol). Thankfully I've learned ways to manage it better, and now I'm proudly ranking just to see how good i can get with the characters i love, I got feaster B badge last season even! To me at least it's helped me realize i shouldn't be that hard on myself and just enjoy myself, I hope this comment can help someone in similar situations, even if its just to feel validated. It gets better, I promise :]
I am so addicted to this game it’s not even funny. Even though I stress so much when I hunter rank I just can’t stop playing and I wait for every session to play even AM rank😭😭
Mental health doesn’t matter! rank o clock does tho! emotions aside time to scream at my mobile device! for the duration of rank and have a great time! 💪💪💪
a bunch of people i thought were cool were into idv. i liked ranking with them, so i eventually started playing the game solo, trying to rank so i could keep up during their rank sessions. i eventually realized that not only did i have major hunter anxiety, the pressure of ranking solo was also starting to get to me, especially once i hit mammoth. so i quit. what about the friends? they were, and are, still cool people. i ended up not being very close to them because we didn't have that interest in common. my life moved on, and so did theirs. i like idv well enough that i enjoy watching others play, but that's about the extent of my interaction with the game. i made friends over different hobbies, for different reasons. and that's ok. no one is the bad guy here. someday, i'd love to have a team to casually play the game with - i do still miss the rush of a well timed cipher pop, and i love the art style and skins - but overall, the quality of my life has improved now that i'm not dreading rank anymore. it really is okay to quit hobbies that are giving you genuine anxiety. that's not what hobbies are for.
This is gonna sound really stupid but I think my rank anxiety was at its peak when I was the same tier for survivor and hunter, so I would go play qm as hunter, maybe lose a game or two then play survivor instead. Then I would match into the people I lost against and I would just be so scared they would bring it up and start being rude to me. Especially after I got a badge for my hunter main, I already had high expectations for myself, but it got even worse then, and I just got really worried that they would talk badly about me because I had a badge and lost. I did thankfully realise that it’s okay to lose with a badge, and that it’s okay to lose in general by watching people play my main and lose themselves. It might sound a little mean, but I swear I am saying this with no bad intentions 😭 It just helped me, it made me realise I’m not the only one struggling and that it’s okay to have bad games! I still get anxious when I first go into rank, bc I’m still close in tiers for both factions with how bad hunter matching is (I’m in 4-4 for hunter and I get people in 4-2/4-1, 4-2 being my survivor tier) but I just try to remember that losing is part of playing games. We have to lose to get better! And if people are rude to you because you lost a match, that says more about them
I love this sort of talk, but I feel its also important to talk about how idv affects people BEYOND the actual gameplay. I'm autistic, and I attach myself so parasocially to characters that I have had mental breakdowns over the way some people treat them. It feels so dramatic when it happens, but it REALLY DOES hurt to say people say hurtful things about characters you love or even feel so similar to that you take it personally. This happens in every community, obviously, but I feel it happens moreso in idv because if a character is bad, people will be so disrespectful to the people who play that character. I've been called SLURS because I main postman, it is actually absurd.
Ive been playing idv since 2020 and the frustration never realky stops. I always get so upset over the game because it feels like i have an actual skill issue. I watch competitive play and tournaments to try and learn from them. I even look at my own matches and try to learn from them yet i still flop a lot of the time. Im always so anxious to rank because the fear of failure gets to me so much. Sure, failure is everywhere. Its just life. But seeing you lose character points, de ranking, everything just seems so penalizing. If you dont know the correct amount of knowledge you are bound to fail at some point. I never shake or cry about the game its basically only fear but its never kept me from actually doinh ranked. If im too afraid of deranking i just wont do rank and ill just qm. I only really rank with friends because i NEVER have good communication in rank. So i think its really when you put so much effort in something only to fail is what gets to some people.
i was in the stream at this point, and i feel that you are definitely gonna make a good therapist. The only thing i hate is pm at certain times with certain types of people, only due to the fact ive had someone say i should get sa’d bc i couldnt make it to the exit gate in time and i got ts making it into a tie. I get that rank is serious, but I dont think it gives anyone the right to send threats. Ig thats js the idv community sadly. I have a new rank duo so it makes rank easier. I also dont really rank much till the middle of the season kinda bc rank after season reset isnt very nice to do. Lately I’ve just been playing customs and qms with my friend which is really fun to do. I agree with the part of having a hobby outside of idv. For me the hobby is reading, I have a whole funding spent towards my books because reading just helps calm me and just get lost in a different world like idk if it makes sense. I had went shopping for books yesterday because I felt like spoiling myself so it was really nice.
hey man :) i didn’t expect to see you reacting to another one of my videos lol. i honestly had no clue what to expect going into this, but i came out pleasantly surprised. i had a good time listening to your own opinions, and watching us come to an understanding in real time was fun to watch.
its cool that you’re studying psychology; i’m starting college soon to study that too! although im not sure if i want to be a psychotherapist. 🤔
thanks for sharing your thoughts, and thanks for enjoying the video. good luck on getting into coa!
As someone who has anxiety, for me it just comes naturally (when i play as hunter in rank). It's not about raging but overthinking or not having support in which i would have as a survivor. Which is why hunter rank in my opinion can be more stressful and i avoid it most if the time. I mostly just rank with friends or qm to make the game more fun. While i hope the community was alot more positive I hope others dont put themselves in that position of stress and i totally agree!!!
Ngl I agree that mental health matters especially when it comes to competitive game like idv. I remember once I got in mammoth for the first time I had people being mean left and right I was pretty new as well. I even got my first death threats and told to off myself. I always took a lot of mental health breaks because of how It affected me. Even now in griffin it's the same and it's just toxic that the community it self need to improve. 😭😭 Like I remember once I got out of high school I took a month break from ranking and playing idv because I needed it.
ignoring the toxic players is the best way🎉close the chat after the match 🤓🎉 I downloaded this game to have fun not to get mental health problems 😅 let them say whatever they want 😂😂😂after all this is still a game 😮😮🤷 ❤
@@sh_b7844 fully agree my duo usually when we get toxic players and they're rude they defend me a lot. But I just take deep breaths and move on and ignore it I heard there's a way to turn post chat off but idk how too.😭😭
@@LITTLEDOOFUS go to the chat then you will find icon ⚙️ like this in the right corner(up).you will find chat settings then you can close the post-match chat 😊
Hope you understand ❤❤😊
@@sh_b7844 Thank you very much 🫶🏽🫶🏽
rank anxiety cuz of toxic teams. i didnt even realize how bad of people they were until later on n shi. pressure from them to "do better" and wanting to prove yourself to bad people. personal experience bc id assume other people dealt with mfs who will pressure you for a couple more rank points. fucking insane.💀💀 sorry if sounds like anything personal, its just a example to me bc it was on topic.😭 cant wait for the full wax artist stream!!
as a person with said anxiety disorder thankfully i only get anxiety when play hunter so i just dont play hunter and the reason is im playing hunter alone. playing with in teams gives me security a nd thats it i guess
I understand the logic behind hopping off a game if it gives you physical stress but it’s easier said than done. After using the game as a way to cope with real life issues and spending so much time on it it’s hard to just step away. Once you’re obsessed your mood depends on how you do, and if you do bad you force yourself to keep going because you need to prove to yourself that all that time and effort wasn’t for nothing. When you lose, you feel bad. It’s only normal for someone who doesn’t know better coping mechanisms or how to properly regulate their emotions to seek that high of a win. Lose = bad, Win = good. You get stuck in this cycle of self worth and need for that serotonin the only solution the person will rationalize is that winning will erase that bad feeling they got from losing. I just wanted to explain this to hopefully put it in a better perspective as someone who had those hunter rank jitters and have since learned the ability to step away and re access what’s best for me.
This game had a dead grip on me when i was 17, the height of the pandemic and my Mother being hospitalized for 2 months. This game takes a HUGE toll on you if you're not in a right place. I've stopped playing actively since 2022 now, I only watch gameplays or commentary about it like the ones Zeuz and Zeez posts. Please prioritize your own mental health over the game, it does impact you more than you think.
tbh its rly hard to describe the "rank anxiety" if you never felt it,as someone with diagnosed anxiety its just the fact that idv is such a big part of me and failing isn't just an "oh well it might happen" it just feels,as dramatic as this sounds,like im gonna be a failiure if i don't do well in this one thing/hobby that i made my own and everyones gonna see it with my wr and performance. its rly something i struggle with but i try and force it in my head that at the end of the day,it is just a game and its not worth it if it causes me to feel sick to my stomach every day.
personally i sometimes get rank anxiety only when i have to play alone because the lack of communication kinda stresses me out (not to the point i start shaking or anything though, it just makes me not want to rank). another thing is just the irritation you feel when you genuiely want to improve and win but you just can't because of some players' poor game sense. like sometimes it just gets to the point you dont feel like ranking because bad teammates cause you to go into rank already with "i know i cant count on those random people so i either need to count on myself or im going to lose" mindset. i started playing in duo/team more and it genuiely helps you stop getting so stressed since the communication is better which also makes your teamwork better
also dopamine rush is just addicting. you feel good when you win, so you want to keep winning because you want to feel good. and when you keep on doing bad, it stresses you out because you dont get the dopamine. so yeah its time to find an actual healthy way to get dopamine :3
Mental health really matters especially if you are ranking to get an S badge or any badge, I stopped playing idv for a couple of days bc I noticed that I was getting obsessed with ranking and in general ranking ON time.
i really appreciate you taking your time to react to this! i hope youre doing well with psych as well, i also have a goal of becoming a therapist/psychologist, so it makes me happy to see that one of my favourite streamers is aswell interested in it.
I didn't play rank consistently until this year, not really bc of anxiety but because of how easily frustrated i get (which affects my daily life in more ways than just a videogame). There have been times I've felt so frustrated I've been close to tears (specially bc i play hunter rank and i can't blame anyone but myself lol). Thankfully I've learned ways to manage it better, and now I'm proudly ranking just to see how good i can get with the characters i love, I got feaster B badge last season even! To me at least it's helped me realize i shouldn't be that hard on myself and just enjoy myself, I hope this comment can help someone in similar situations, even if its just to feel validated. It gets better, I promise :]
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I am so addicted to this game it’s not even funny. Even though I stress so much when I hunter rank I just can’t stop playing and I wait for every session to play even AM rank😭😭
Mental health doesn’t matter! rank o clock does tho! emotions aside time to scream at my mobile device! for the duration of rank and have a great time! 💪💪💪
a bunch of people i thought were cool were into idv. i liked ranking with them, so i eventually started playing the game solo, trying to rank so i could keep up during their rank sessions. i eventually realized that not only did i have major hunter anxiety, the pressure of ranking solo was also starting to get to me, especially once i hit mammoth.
so i quit. what about the friends? they were, and are, still cool people. i ended up not being very close to them because we didn't have that interest in common. my life moved on, and so did theirs. i like idv well enough that i enjoy watching others play, but that's about the extent of my interaction with the game. i made friends over different hobbies, for different reasons. and that's ok. no one is the bad guy here.
someday, i'd love to have a team to casually play the game with - i do still miss the rush of a well timed cipher pop, and i love the art style and skins - but overall, the quality of my life has improved now that i'm not dreading rank anymore. it really is okay to quit hobbies that are giving you genuine anxiety. that's not what hobbies are for.
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This is gonna sound really stupid but I think my rank anxiety was at its peak when I was the same tier for survivor and hunter, so I would go play qm as hunter, maybe lose a game or two then play survivor instead. Then I would match into the people I lost against and I would just be so scared they would bring it up and start being rude to me. Especially after I got a badge for my hunter main, I already had high expectations for myself, but it got even worse then, and I just got really worried that they would talk badly about me because I had a badge and lost. I did thankfully realise that it’s okay to lose with a badge, and that it’s okay to lose in general by watching people play my main and lose themselves. It might sound a little mean, but I swear I am saying this with no bad intentions 😭 It just helped me, it made me realise I’m not the only one struggling and that it’s okay to have bad games! I still get anxious when I first go into rank, bc I’m still close in tiers for both factions with how bad hunter matching is (I’m in 4-4 for hunter and I get people in 4-2/4-1, 4-2 being my survivor tier) but I just try to remember that losing is part of playing games. We have to lose to get better! And if people are rude to you because you lost a match, that says more about them
I love this sort of talk, but I feel its also important to talk about how idv affects people BEYOND the actual gameplay.
I'm autistic, and I attach myself so parasocially to characters that I have had mental breakdowns over the way some people treat them. It feels so dramatic when it happens, but it REALLY DOES hurt to say people say hurtful things about characters you love or even feel so similar to that you take it personally.
This happens in every community, obviously, but I feel it happens moreso in idv because if a character is bad, people will be so disrespectful to the people who play that character. I've been called SLURS because I main postman, it is actually absurd.
Ive been playing idv since 2020 and the frustration never realky stops. I always get so upset over the game because it feels like i have an actual skill issue. I watch competitive play and tournaments to try and learn from them. I even look at my own matches and try to learn from them yet i still flop a lot of the time. Im always so anxious to rank because the fear of failure gets to me so much. Sure, failure is everywhere. Its just life. But seeing you lose character points, de ranking, everything just seems so penalizing. If you dont know the correct amount of knowledge you are bound to fail at some point. I never shake or cry about the game its basically only fear but its never kept me from actually doinh ranked. If im too afraid of deranking i just wont do rank and ill just qm. I only really rank with friends because i NEVER have good communication in rank. So i think its really when you put so much effort in something only to fail is what gets to some people.
i was in the stream at this point, and i feel that you are definitely gonna make a good therapist. The only thing i hate is pm at certain times with certain types of people, only due to the fact ive had someone say i should get sa’d bc i couldnt make it to the exit gate in time and i got ts making it into a tie. I get that rank is serious, but I dont think it gives anyone the right to send threats. Ig thats js the idv community sadly. I have a new rank duo so it makes rank easier. I also dont really rank much till the middle of the season kinda bc rank after season reset isnt very nice to do. Lately I’ve just been playing customs and qms with my friend which is really fun to do. I agree with the part of having a hobby outside of idv. For me the hobby is reading, I have a whole funding spent towards my books because reading just helps calm me and just get lost in a different world like idk if it makes sense. I had went shopping for books yesterday because I felt like spoiling myself so it was really nice.