Written by SaltyVet23, U.S. Navy Veteran As one can expect, being in the Navy is a… unique experience. For those who don’t know what the experience is like, imagine taking your entire high school and making it float at sea....
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José A. Morales | StrawHatRican, U.S. Air Force Veteran Peddling Cartridges Long before Dante and Randall clerked the Quick Stop and RTS Video, I had the privilege of being raised in a video store long ago on the shores of...
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With the advent of achievements becoming a mainstay in gaming, it is easy to associate compulsive behaviour with ‘trophy hunters’ and ‘completionists’ who desire to 100% a game. The self-satisfaction that many people feel from getting an achievement (gaming-related or...
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Before discovering I had ADHD, I thought I was alone in my quirks and how I socialise. But my experiences were more universal than I realised. Gaming has evolved to be more than an experience shared alone. In the world...
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Since my earliest years, I’ve always sensed a profound difference within myself, as if I didn’t quite fit into the mold of “normal” childhood. It took me a long while to truly understand what was going on during this time. ...
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When the pandemic began, like most people, I found myself with more time on my hands than I knew what to do with. Then, I remembered my backlog of video games! I didn’t know what I was getting myself into...
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This week is Alcohol Awareness Week, a campaign from Alcohol Change UK to raise awareness of the impact alcohol can have on society and end alcohol harm. Alcohol Change UK is not an anti-alcohol charity, but they are advocating for...
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Before we start, I’d like to give a trigger warning for mentions of the subject of death. Your health comes first, so make sure that you feel comfortable before you read. When I was young, I was an extremely angry...
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I am a game designer. No wait, scratch that. More specifically – I am an escape room designer. I became a professional, full time escape room designer back in 2019. Not long before the global pandemic… And you can guess...
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Content: Warwick Zero shared their experiences in grief, loss, therapy and using streaming to explore their identity. My personal mental health journey has been a fairly recent one (the last 3 years or so), but more so because I felt...
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CW: Brief mention of suicidal thoughts, brief mention of abusive relationship As someone who spent their adolescence riddled with the undiagnosed, but very real, symptoms of both Generalized Anxiety Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder, my communities have always served as...
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I didn’t have a queer role model growing up. The only tangible examples of people like me I ever saw were the ones presented in movies and television. You know, the ones who are constantly tormented and tortured, who can’t...
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I don’t remember the first time I ever played a video game. What I do know is my brother, being only a year older than me, had a player 2 once I was old enough to hold a controller. I...
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Life has a funny way of throwing unexpected challenges our way, shaping our paths in ways we never could have anticipated. Growing up in a Christian context in Lebanon, where being gay was frowned upon, I found myself navigating a...
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Mental health. For me, this topic is intensely complex, and tied in with both gaming and all aspects of my life and journey. As a streamer, we put ourselves in the public eye so many times, and it can be...
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I have been through a lot of traumas in my life so far, from being bullied by all the girls in my year in high school to multiple situations with men who didn’t listen to me when I said no....
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I love competitive games, specifically first person shooters (FPS). However, they are notorious for their toxic communities. This poses an issue for neurotypical, non spicy-brained individuals, so the effects it has on someone who is atypical can be incredibly detrimental....
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Video games have been for a long time my lifeline. I was born a very turbulent but smiling boy, had troubles focusing on things, was always daydreaming about nothing and everything… My mother told me later that she originally didn’t...
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Video games have been an important part of my life for over 35 years. They bring me a lot of joy and now I make my living as a game journalist, grateful that something that has always been there to...
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In the vast realm of video games, there are those rare franchises that go beyond mere entertainment, leaving a lasting impact on players’ lives. Although becoming more common, and the topic of mental health is being tackled more often, they...
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“It’s a nasty world out there, and it’s catching up with us…” It’s 2001 and a much cuter and happier me is wandering wide-eyed through a tire-trodden rugby pitch at a local car boot sale. Car boot sales are something...
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Thanks to a few high-profile celebs the conversation around Perimenopause and Menopause has become more mainstream, with a slow increase of representation and discussion in popular culture; yet it is still a topic that is often overlooked or avoided in...
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On 3 September 2022, I lost Jerry, my eighteen-year-old cat and best friend in the world. I moved to the UK when I was 13 after living abroad in Cyprus and the US for most of my childhood. Starting a...
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I was born and raised smack in the middle of Nairobi City. Yes! The same Nairobi Alba Flores embodied in the acclaimed Netflix series Money Heist. The capital city of Kenya. During the first decade of my life, we lived...
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Feeling different from usual or noticed a change in your behaviour? Learn about some common feelings and mental health symptoms, how to cope with them, and where to go for help.
A-Z of mental health Feelings & symptoms Resources
