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⌈ Secret Post #2686 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

05. http://i.imgur.com/D1zPuyS.png

[visp]

Aw, math blasters. I remember the version with the television robot and the live wire snake.

[(Anonymous)]

As a huge player of video games who also has anxiety issues, I can sympathize to a degree. I don't really have panic attacks, but if there's a timer of any sort in a game (either a detonation timer, racing timer, etc.), I get REALLY stressed out and can't think straight. If the timer isn't visible, I'm fine, but if there's a countdown clock that starts freaking out as it gets closer to the end, I'm liable to royally screw up what I'm supposed to be doing. Progression-of-day is fine for me, though, since it's not really pressuring me, so games like Pikmin don't freak me out.

Don't feel like you're the only one who has problems with this, OP. I haven't been able to 100% certain games due to timed missions. You've just got to keep at it and hope you'll desensitize yourself to whatever's causing you stress.

[feotakahari]

Wow. That REALLY doesn't sound like something that should have been included in a game for young children.

[(Anonymous)]

The OP makes it sound much worse than it actually is. Also, it's typically played in middle school; kids of that age are definitely old enough to understand death and the difference between fantasy and reality.

SA

[(Anonymous)]

Somehow I missed that OP was in third grade when they played.

Eh. That might be iffy, but...

Shit, I was playing games and watching action movies with my dad when I was six and seven. Kids are a lot more resilient than a lot of people give them credit for. And OP's issue is very unusual and has a lot more to do with them having anxiety then the content being inappropriate.

[(Anonymous)]

Math blasters was totally fine to play in elementary school. My dad bought it for me when I got my first B in math in 3rd grade... after a lecture, that is.

Like, I completely get anxiety in a game played during childhood. It was also played pretty consistently in elementary school, as the math isn't middle school advanced.

[(Anonymous)]

I sympathize. I used so many strategies to avoid actually playing Number Munchers or Spellavator so I wouldn't risk the little creature being eaten...

[(Anonymous)]

I hear you. I flat out can't play any computer or video games if anyone is nearby enough to watch, because I'll get even more anxious worrying that something like that will happen and then people will mock me for doing so badly when I can't even think straight, like they have in the past, and it's so fucking awful I'm freaking out a little right now just thinking about it.

[icecheetah]

Aww, that seems like it'd really suck... and like that game may have been too much for you regardless. I remember being terrified of letting my characters die when I started playing games, and it took me ages to allow myself to play past the training levels... I think what helped me was probably save spamming and playing easier games.

That councilor is a terrible one. I hope you find someone who you can talk to about this.

[diet_poison]

So agreed about the counselor, ugh.

[insanenoodlyguy]

No, the people who ask for trigger warnings for bread are still ridiculous.

[diet_poison]

ia. like, how do you go through life...?

Trypophobia?

[elephantinegrace]

I go through life pretty easily (definitely way more easily than people think, with how much I bitch about everything) but I've asked people to tag stuff before over a picture of bread. It's just the little holes that make me kind of want to claw my face off. -shudders-

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't assume that. I don't have any triggers, but I form strong associations really easily. If I did have PTSD, it wouldn't surprise me if some of my triggers were weirdly specific and seemingly innocuous to other people.

[dethtoll]

I can't help but be a little sympathetic. I tend to freeze up with open-world games -- too many options, too much to do. I have to pretty much force myself to keep playing.

And I keep wussing out on Demon's/Dark Souls. I was totally absorbed in DkS last year, but ever since Ornstein and Smough killed the magic for me I haven't been able to dive in like I used to.

[(Anonymous)]

I think you should get a different counselor, OP. That one sounds really terrible.

[souljelly]

I agree with those who suggest finding a different counsellor tbh. *Hugs for the OP*

[arcadiaego]

Oh lord, that sounds like the kind of thing that would make me horribly anxious. (I also suck at maths.) If it really bothers you, I think you should try and find a new counselor who will actually listen to you properly!

[(Anonymous)]

The councilor you spoke to sounds terrible. Even phrased as a hypothetical and not knowing you meant yourself, for them to be so cruelly dismissive like that is really awful. People can't control the way they feel. I hope you find someone more open to what you are going through.

[welfycat]

Adding my voice to the people suggesting checking out another counselor if you're in a situation where you are able to do so.

I also sympathize with your situation. I love playing video games, but I'm not particularly skilled and it makes me very anxious when a game shows or tells me that people will suffer or be hurt because I wasn't able to complete a task. The first game I actually ever finished playing was a point and click called The Longest Journey where you couldn't screw up and couldn't die. To this day, I often find myself playing games that are similar in that they don't have harsh penalties for messing up or they don't let you mess up really.

I wish you the best of luck with everything.

[(Anonymous)]

They're pixels. They're not real. Just remember that.

[diet_poison]

Ew, bad counselor. Bad. Seriously, they should have picked up on the fact that you were probably talking either about yourself or someone you knew, and to be so dismissive and rude? Especially considering that she's supposed to HELP people who have issues like that, not mock them? I hope you find someone else who is more helpful (ideally, who you don't feel uncomfortable about talking to about stuff, so you can say it straight instead of dancing around with hypotheticals).

I hope things get better for you, OP. I understand being scared of something like that as a kid, and I'm sorry it's stuck with you like this. :(

[annethecatdetective]

Ugh I feel you. I've played a lot of games, and there are certain situations that are super stressful to me. I've been guilty of handing the controller off to my little brother in a panic, or having to get my heart rate back down after the dreaded drowning music (I grew up on the Genesis)...

And it's definitely worse when it's like a group you're letting down than when it's just your own character dying, too. So I can't hack escort missions, and I couldn't really do Pikmin because ugh when they die you feel like such a failure...

[(Anonymous)]

Is that Raz from Psychonauts? That is my all time fav game.


Op, you need to get a new counselor, the one you have seems pretty shitty.