How video games helped improve my mental health, again – Reader’s Feature

metro.co.uk:

issues.Some of the regular readers may have spotted my absence from the Underbox and letters page. I would like to think that my absence was missed but I think that won’t be the case, as towards the end of last year I had become rather obnoxious, even if I do so say myself. I have in the past, and my own personal journey, and how gaming has often come to my rescue and, yet again, it did again.From around November last year, I was starting to feel angry.

Not just a little bit peeved but full on steam from the ears inducing anger. I was raging. This often translated into my comments on letters and features.

Some of these were weeded out by GC but the odd one or two were seen by members of this community. I wrote a couple of very angry letters and features that were, quite rightly, dismissed out of hand, before finally snapping and writing another angry letter to the boys and girls at GC. Nothing came of this letter, although it probably gave the office a good laugh and I sulked off.Where did all this anger come from? I had the joy of disappearing into the darkness of bi-polar.

My dark side as I call it. It’s a pretty grim place, there’s not a lot of sunshine down there. The stupid thing from my perspective is it’s easily avoidable.

All I have to do is take my meds. Guess which numpty wouldn’t take his meds? Oh that will be me!My good lady wife finally got me on to my meds and the journey from the dark side started.As I am writing this for a gaming site it was gaming I turned to, to get some mojo back. Two unlikely and very different games were the most helpful.