Today I share with you some trends I am seeing in the FFXIV community when it comes to mental health. I will share resources as well as my own story. Love yall
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Spoiler free: Endwalker has themes which hit most of us HARD, through a combination of personal underlying issues in folks' individual lives + the COVID lockdown era where many people, globally, were socially isolated to an extreme degree
FFXIV has kind of always had brutal mental health themes (which has led many, myself included, to seek professional help!) but Endwalker is… again, spoiler free… ESPECIALLY brutal, psychologically.
Endwalker is my favorite expansion, precisely because it pulls no punches. It explores so many themes relevant to our age, like suicide, propaganda, global crises, nihilism, the meaning of existence, Etc.
SPOILERS BELOW
Hermes was one of the best interpretations of a clinically depressed man that I've ever seen in video games. He was a man with a conscience in an age where conscience was considered unnecessary to life. The Ancients could decide who was worthy of life, and wipe out anything that didn't meet their criteria. They weren't exactly cruel, they just didn’t all grasp the idea that all life had value (we were shown only a few people in the ancient world who did: Venat, her followers & Hermes).
I've seen people do the Garlemald questline and have to stop playing after the stuff with Quintus. For me, that plus the soup scene with Jullus is exactly why I love FFXIV. It shows the ugliness of life, but also the beauty.
Thank you for your vulnerability, and insight. Be well, and may your healing journey go as smoothly as possible. Much love.
Right channel on this is weird, if you have the fixed track a re-up would be nice, especially for your message you're delivering
Thank you to this community for bearing your hearts, souls, and struggles to me. I love this FFXIV community and the people I have met. I hope this touches your heart
You. Are. Amazing.
That’s all else I can say. The fact you’re speaking about this and allowing yourself to be vulnerable for us is exactly what the ffxiv community needs.
You don’t know it quite yet, but you’re going to be a very important content creator in this community, especially since you’re backing your content behind your words here. I can even say you have helped me a time or two getting me through a day with your kind words.
Of course you have to go through the steps like every other content creator has to do, but this… this. This is more important than you even know yet.
We need more people speaking about these important things. I’m very happy to have met you and I’m ecstatic to be a part of your community. Keep it up. You’re so great and I can’t tell you that enough.
We lubbs yew, Nurddiii!
Seeing people coming in and being embraced heartens me and hope that everyone is having this same feeling.
I'm a FFXIV player since ARR Reborn and as my first time playing a MMORPG I struggled at the beggining of my journey with the salty comments from random players about how I suck. I must confess that it put me out of some normal raids and extreme trials to avoid "waste other people's time" since my weak performance could be of prejudice to a whole party.
Somehow this unworthiness feeling in real life was getting in the game and the "MUST NOT FAIL" pressure hold me back to not even try things.
I could have given up but the alive game feeling and randomness of things gave me a different social interaction, the feeling of being part of something in the first free company I joined.
Although I avoided the end game contents, I was focused in doing things that could benefit all members even with the little I could. Probably there was also the mindset that I want "please others to be acceptable" but it gave some determination to keep playing and getting better.
After these whole years, I was happy to clear an extreme trial/savage raid with the fc party when it was launched. I am not the PRO player I wish to be but I also understood that I'm not that full crap either and there's always a progress to celebrate when you beat each %. It helped me understand the uniqueness of each one and that our skills together, could make amazing things.
I'm sure I also have lots of things to learn from old and new players. Y'all are important to me not matter how bad you feel about yourself. Let's stand together! <3
It’s worth adding I think that how more extroverted people experience depression as oppose to those who are more introverted or have chronic depression. Imagine feeling horrible and anxious but nothing has happened that is traumatic or life changing. At best you can identify it quickly and drag around the iron ball until it lifts. At worse you will begin trying to identify the sources of your pain and drive yourself crazy and even start looking into the ‘void’.
So you can imagine how the iron ball does not feel as heavy during gaming sessions. FFXIV does have the added benefit of exploring important themes that you yourself may not have had time to experience yet. There are many characters to identify with and understand why they react the way they do.