Grinding Through Depression
2 days ago
- #depression
- #gaming
- #mental-health
- Grinding in video games involves repetitive tasks for minimal rewards, which can be boring but useful for progress.
- Depression makes it hard to enjoy games, but grinding provides a simple, distraction from negative feelings.
- The author avoids new games when depressed, preferring familiar, repetitive tasks like leveling up characters or hunting for rare Pokémon.
- Dancing games from the Persona series helped the author during a low point by providing achievable, time-consuming goals.
- Grinding offers slow, steady progress, which can be comforting during tough times, even if the goals seem arbitrary.