There was a time in my life that i was extremely depressed. Video games and anime helped me get through it. There was one anime in particular that helped a lot. The name of it is Ouran High School Host Club. The anime it’s self is great. I felt connections to some of the characters.
Now I’ll explain what Ouran High School Host Club is about. So there’s a girl named Haruhi who gets good grades. She’s a commoner that goes to a private school for rich people. She tries to find a quite place to study and stubble’s upon the host club. The club consists of 6 boys and they entertain the lady’s at the school with tea party’s and fancy, rich people stuff. Haruhi breaks a very expensive vase and has to work for the host club as a guy.
I connect with Haruhi in the way she is. She doesn’t judge people and excepts them for who they are. One of the things she says is “it’s better to be recognized by who you are then be recognized by what sex you are” – Haruhi. I agree with that statement a lot. Haruhi doesn’t dress like a girl a lot and her dad is a cross dresser. She understands what it is to be different and she knows how to tolerate people’s differences.
Now I will explain how this beautiful anime helped me with my depression. Everyday I was in a bad mood I would go home and watch this. It always would brighten my day. The cast of characters are fun to watch and it deals with situations that happen in real life. This always helped me and it still does. The anime teaches you how to be yourself and that being different is okay. That was one of the things I needed to know. I needed to know being different is an okay thing.
Anime seems to be good at cheering some people up. I’m not saying this is something you should do all the time to help with depression, but it helps sometimes. Eating healthy and exercising on a regular basis helps with it as well. Anime is fun to watch and can be very helpful. If your going to watch anime to cheer you up you would wanna watch a cheerful and up beat one.
Besides this one anime there was a video game that also helped. It was Pokemon x. It was one of the games that helped me back into gaming as well. In Pokemon you catch Pokemon and battle with them, now that doesn’t seem to fun or helpful, but I had fun with it. For me it was after I beat the game that I had the most fun. Beating the game itself was rewarding, but even though theirs not much to do after you beat the game I still had fun.
After I beat it I started to actually build teams of Pokemon and train them in certain ways. I would also spend a lot of in game money on hair cuts and clothes for my character, this is a new feature in Pokemon x and y. Then I would play with them in poke amie, which is another new feature of the game. You can pet the Pokemon and feed them and even play games with them. My favorite Pokemon I had on my team was lilligant.
I loved the rest of my team as well. I almost always have the same team, but to me the Pokemon on my team were special. I may sound crazy but I would sort of vent to them when I was alone. My team consisted of a flareon named Logan, a gardevoir, a lilligant, a shuckle, a mawile and a butterfree named 100%. They all had a special connection to me and make me feel happy.