COMPLETE: Adventures With Anxiety
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kjorteoAdventures With Anxiety is a free web game, mostly VN-ish by gameplay (pick the dialogue options,) and both incredibly Too Real and... actually really theraputic and helpful.
You are The Anxiety, here represented by a quite frankly adorable wolf. Your job is to protect your human from DANGER such as eating unhealthy foods, going outside, or not being productive enough in the eyes of society.
Full disclosure: I myself have pretty bad anxiety, and even had regular panic attacks for basically no reason (my body just physically decided it was panic attack o'clock) for a while there, until I got some therapy which... well, I don't get panic attacks anymore. I still have anxiety, but it's manageable. I have to refrain from a lot of things. (The literal first thing my therapist told me was to get the fuck off Twitter, for example.) If you have a food allergy, so you avoid the food you're allergic to, and then you're fine, it's not like you're cured because you'd still have an allergic reaction if you ate it again, you know? But you're okay as long as you don't, so... my anxiety is manageable now, is what I'm saying, and that's probably the best one could hope for.
This game... having been through the panic attacks and the therapy and all, I can vouch that it's scarily accurate, both in how having anxiety feels and the actual best way to cope with it if you have it. I went in with what my therapist told me and it's exactly what you're supposed to do here, too. This game reduces anxiety into a cute fluffy metaphor, which is incredibly helpful on two layers. It serves as something others can understand to know what it's like, and it helps sufferers themselves put their feelings into perspective and teach some healthy ways to tame that wolf.
This is highly recommended. It's free and half an hour long so it's in the "why not" pile. It's cute and adorable, educational and informative, and has a sweet and heartfelt emotional message to wrap the whole thing off. It pretty much did the Toy Story 3 thing of making me cry at the end and then whiplashing into a fun dance party credit sequence that brought me right back up again. A+ please check this out.
Sara adds: ... Not much, actually; Celine basically said it all. But just... yeah. I agree strongly enough that I wanted to go on record that I said it too. This is almost exactly what Celine goes through, except hers is a Totodile instead of a wolf. It's actually kind of eerie how spot-on this game gets it. This game is definitely an experience worth having and sharing with people who've had it.
You are The Anxiety, here represented by a quite frankly adorable wolf. Your job is to protect your human from DANGER such as eating unhealthy foods, going outside, or not being productive enough in the eyes of society.
Full disclosure: I myself have pretty bad anxiety, and even had regular panic attacks for basically no reason (my body just physically decided it was panic attack o'clock) for a while there, until I got some therapy which... well, I don't get panic attacks anymore. I still have anxiety, but it's manageable. I have to refrain from a lot of things. (The literal first thing my therapist told me was to get the fuck off Twitter, for example.) If you have a food allergy, so you avoid the food you're allergic to, and then you're fine, it's not like you're cured because you'd still have an allergic reaction if you ate it again, you know? But you're okay as long as you don't, so... my anxiety is manageable now, is what I'm saying, and that's probably the best one could hope for.
This game... having been through the panic attacks and the therapy and all, I can vouch that it's scarily accurate, both in how having anxiety feels and the actual best way to cope with it if you have it. I went in with what my therapist told me and it's exactly what you're supposed to do here, too. This game reduces anxiety into a cute fluffy metaphor, which is incredibly helpful on two layers. It serves as something others can understand to know what it's like, and it helps sufferers themselves put their feelings into perspective and teach some healthy ways to tame that wolf.
This is highly recommended. It's free and half an hour long so it's in the "why not" pile. It's cute and adorable, educational and informative, and has a sweet and heartfelt emotional message to wrap the whole thing off. It pretty much did the Toy Story 3 thing of making me cry at the end and then whiplashing into a fun dance party credit sequence that brought me right back up again. A+ please check this out.
Sara adds: ... Not much, actually; Celine basically said it all. But just... yeah. I agree strongly enough that I wanted to go on record that I said it too. This is almost exactly what Celine goes through, except hers is a Totodile instead of a wolf. It's actually kind of eerie how spot-on this game gets it. This game is definitely an experience worth having and sharing with people who've had it.
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Date: 2019-09-29 02:33 am (UTC)Oh! The full version's out! Huh! Will have to try.
(Woops. Weirdly-placed and potentially-spoilery second paragraph deleted.)