Mental Health and The Sims - How has it helped you?

I have DID and The sims helps me create and play with my insiders and give them a happy childhood and life. It can be very therapeutic. I can control their world and make it a safe and peaceful place.

@Scobre Thanks for the recommendation and I will absolutely check her out!

Also thank you for your kind words and support - I think the thing that's crushing me the most is the fact that 2020 was meant to be the year I got myself out of my 7 year isolation (I barely leave the house anyway - my whole existence revolves around self-isolation haha) and now it's like nope you're not leaving yet. Get back in your bed and stay there for at least 3 months!

EDIT: Always a pleasure to meet a fellow spoonie and someone else who understands what having an invisible disability is like who also loves the Sims!

The Sims has always been a great place to escape the chaos of the world and enjoy the fun of the game. I have always appreciated the quirks and humor of the game. It has always been a nice place for me to take a time out and play. The Sims does not have a particular agenda when playing: it is a nice slow paced game that puts you in control when life may be out of control. <3

@Scobre.
The saying 'Never judge a book by its cover' springs to mind.
I was diagnosed with ADHD and Dyspraxia during my early years in primary school, back when I lived in Cheshire. I believe that during those years i found out about The Sims. My first full foray into the franchise was TS3, which I got roughly in 2012. My next foray into the franchise was TS4. I got the Digital Deluxe in 2017. Ever since, I've been having fun!

Wow, Scobre you are a walking miracle. You have been granted a special gift of life.

I understand what it's like to live with Cronic Issues. As a child, I sufferer Cronic Growing Pains that turned into Degenerative Joint Disease in my teens. As a young adult, I've experienced an imbalance in my hormones & low-iron after the birth of my beautiful daughter. And now I experience very bad side affects from my Premenopause to the point where I needed to see a counselor for my sad moods. I always make it my business to find @ least one joy each day & thank the Heavens that my issues aren't worse. I also pray for strength & happiness for anyone suffering Cronic Issues.

Peace, Love & Joy to you all.

"SERVERFRA;c-17430517" wrote:
Wow, Scobre you are a walking miracle. You have been granted a special gift of life.

Awe thanks. Yeah I dealt with a year of intense gallbladder pain. It was sad because one of my friends that wanted to meet me in real life right before I got the surgery is one of the friends that passed away but I was too sick to meet up with him and his fiancee at the time. John Kim was such an amazing artist and worked on some of the art with aliens in the Sims 2 and whenever I see the credits while playing makes me remember him. Sadly brain cancer took him and not many of his friends knew he was sick. It was so weird how we met was when I was taking a little hiatus from the Sims during my uni years to bring my grades up, found my first MMO which reminded me of the Sims with gnomes and flamingos I could fight and it is like once you are a Simmer there is no escaping it when I ran into him. I miss him and the fun times I had playing Lineage 2 with him and his fiancee and she ended up marrying the other player we would play with in the game. It is hard not to feel guilty when you are still alive and some friends don't make it, but we carry on telling our stories about them. My mom went through heart surgery and my dad is fighting cancer now, so I view them as a miracle more them myself. I'm just glad they are still around since I no longer have any grandparents around. One of my friends Writin_Reg was really there for me talking about what was going on with my parents and what was going on with her and it saddened me losing her last year too.

You have quite the inspiring story yourself too @SERVERFRA. Raising a daughter alone isn't easy. That is a good goal to have each day. It reminds me of my goal has been to make at least one other person laugh or smile each day which oddly brings me joy. Sorry you have had to deal with health issues since childhood too, but I am glad that the Sims has helped you through it.

@ChuChuExpress Thanks again for making this thread and glad the Sims has helped you as well. My brother has ADD so I can understand it can be hard sometimes just doing daily tasks. He is now a father of a boy and a girl and has a beautiful wife I am proud to call my sister. It was 2002 when I first got the Sims Deluxe game and I've been corrupted ever since. It has been wonderful to see new Simmers join the Sims community as the years progress.

@Scobre.
You're welcome! It also seems that mental health issues and special needs run in my family. My dad has ADHD, as well as high blood pressure (that's from his line of work) and my sister has Dyspraxia.

Thank you Scobre. My beautiful daughter has a strong compassion for people with issues to the point that she has a fiance who suffers from extreme Social Anxiety & Knee pain. Poor boy. I pray for my future Son-in-Law everyday. He's like a son I never had.
On a lighter note, my daughter became a Simmer the same time as me. She's the one that accidently discovered Sims 3 Diesel Stuff in EB GameStop. When we brought the new game home & tried to install it, we learned that we needed a base game, so we when back to the store & brought the base game to install then the Sims 3 Diesel Stuff. We so didn't know much back then. Lol
At present we are still simmers. We play our own Sims 4 games & I help my daughter by giving her Sims 4 gift cards so that she can get the Gamepacks & Stuff games in Origin. You never stop being a Mother to your child even when they've grown & moved out.
PS: I sometimes even get my future Son-in-Law the Steam gift cards to help take his mind off his pain. I always refer my Daughter & him as my kids.

I've ordered a gaming laptop, an Acer Nitro 5 with a 17 inch screen and two storage drives. Looking forward to it arriving next week. Also, just purchased the digital version of ACNH. It'll give me something to do whilst I wait. My Toshiba has served me very well, and it's not going into retirement any time soon. I did go out to help at the Animal Sanctuary I volunteer for, so I got some fresh air. Messiest job is the tortoises, but it's so worth it when we're using newspaper pages of the tabloid variety to line their indoor enclosure.