Is chess damaging to one's mental health?

My test was issued in 2005, I don't know which test it was but it was administered by a professional. Mind you, I was a youngster at the time. 178 was the result.

If not provided by MENSA specialized IQ test for these pass standardized with 148, the value 178 is not possible. School IQ test results are not valid enough to estimate anything above and MENSA tests cannot be compared with.

If not already, apply for official MENSA testing. Every person at least 17 year old on the world have only 3 attempts during lifetime.

I was told that in school! They convinced my parents to drag me out to an appointment for testing! A dreadful 40 minute wait for the little me, too. I took my test in an irritable mood.

Hope you don't mind me asking, but how old were you?

I was 9. the test was administered in 2005

Oh okay
Also I checked out your profile- you said you learnt the rules of chess like 20 min. before creating your account, and you made your acc. on may 13... how did you jump from novice to 2000 in just 2 days?! That's a crazily steep improvement!!

Not sure how much of it is improvement vs where I started. I want to make moves in respect to equity.
The best possible EV, according to my own reasoning, principles and priorities, which are obviously still a work in progress, but I am figuring it out as I go and I think a lot of my initial assumptions and reasoning is still holding up.

I think the game can do damage to people with a predisposition to mental issues not the game per se. Morphy, Steinitz, Torre, Fischer, etc., all had personal issues outside of Chess that may or may not have been aggravated by the game.

Kind of like how video games don't make people shoot up schools unless they already were predisposed to do that!

68/68 2 days after learning chess?
Of course by padding as most of your oppononents were U1500. Avg oppononent 1304.