Life was all good until one day I got sick, then very sick. 4 years later I'm almost completely bed bound with a rare degenerative disease. I lost my job, my friends, my hope of raising a family, and all my then recreational activities. Video games are one of the few ways I have of maintaining a social life, and are absolutely the only sense of adventure or pride I ever get anymore.
Fairly often people will conduct polls in game related reddits asking if people are depressed and I hate it. It feels like all depressed gamers are lumped together with the conclusion inevitably being drawn that gaming causes depression. I'm not disputing that I'm depressed (now) but I want people to recognize that gaming is one of the very few positive things I have left and have HELPED me instead of harmed. I think, like therapy, gaming also gets a bad stigma in this way and I'm happy to see educated people like you u/dr-mick setting the record straight.
I wanted to ask, do you ever recommend video games to non-gamers who are seeing you as a therapist?
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Life was all good until one day I got sick, then very sick. 4 years later I'm almost completely bed bound with a rare degenerative disease. I lost my job, my friends, my hope of raising a family, and all my then recreational activities. Video games are one of the few ways I have of maintaining a social life, and are absolutely the only sense of adventure or pride I ever get anymore.
Fairly often people will conduct polls in game related reddits asking if people are depressed and I hate it. It feels like all depressed gamers are lumped together with the conclusion inevitably being drawn that gaming causes depression. I'm not disputing that I'm depressed (now) but I want people to recognize that gaming is one of the very few positive things I have left and have HELPED me instead of harmed. I think, like therapy, gaming also gets a bad stigma in this way and I'm happy to see educated people like you u/dr-mick setting the record straight.
I wanted to ask, do you ever recommend video games to non-gamers who are seeing you as a therapist?
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