Has the sims comfort you in away ?

Yes - I struggled a lot with my mental health when I was in University. I lived far out of town in a horrible, cold apartment and every day I would wake up in absolute misery, wishing I was anywhere else, unable to cope with the realities of my new 'adult' life. Eventually it got so bad that I started having panic attacks every time I had to think about leaving the house.

Before that, sims was just something I played for fun, but during that time I got absolutely immersed. It was a way for me to escape my reality & live a different life that wasn't so miserable. I absolutely loved it, I made sims that had lives so different from mine that you couldn't even compare them, and even though my laptop broke the year I finished college and I lost all of those saves, I still think about those sims and the stories I invented of their complex lives. It sounds kind of silly, I'm sure, but they became really real in my head for that period.