Insight On Why Mental Health In The Sims is a Big NO for Me @SimGurus @SimGuruGrant (Please read!)
Here are my thoughts on adding mental health to the sims, I am going to use depression as an example.
Not everyone's depression is the same. There's mild depression all the way to Major Depression (the severest form of depression). Even if they added different severities of depression it still wouldn't be accurate because in real life everyone experiences mental health differently and each person has a variety of different symptoms and some symptoms are more severe than others for the individual. Also if they added moderate to severe depression they would need to add the common symptom "suicidal Ideation" and that is an extremely inappropriate feature to add to a Teen rated(13+) game like The sims.
Edited for content. - EA_Cian
p.s This is just my experience and opinion, I'm not here to tell you that "you are wrong, I'm right". No one is "right" or "wrong", I am not "right" or "wrong", this is just my opinion. I hope we can have a calm and respectful discussion. Thanks all :smile:
p.s btw I'm doing a LOT better currently, there have been many setbacks but I keep on trying! I've been in therapy for many years and it's starting to help a lot and the meds I'm taking help a tinsy bit too (meds usually didn't work). I have a lot of people supporting me.
@SimGuruGrant
Not everyone's depression is the same. There's mild depression all the way to Major Depression (the severest form of depression). Even if they added different severities of depression it still wouldn't be accurate because in real life everyone experiences mental health differently and each person has a variety of different symptoms and some symptoms are more severe than others for the individual. Also if they added moderate to severe depression they would need to add the common symptom "suicidal Ideation" and that is an extremely inappropriate feature to add to a Teen rated(13+) game like The sims.
Edited for content. - EA_Cian
p.s This is just my experience and opinion, I'm not here to tell you that "you are wrong, I'm right". No one is "right" or "wrong", I am not "right" or "wrong", this is just my opinion. I hope we can have a calm and respectful discussion. Thanks all :smile:
p.s btw I'm doing a LOT better currently, there have been many setbacks but I keep on trying! I've been in therapy for many years and it's starting to help a lot and the meds I'm taking help a tinsy bit too (meds usually didn't work). I have a lot of people supporting me.
@SimGuruGrant
