Hi all,
I have seen quite a few posts on here with people going through traumatic circumstances and/or tough times and how if these are linked to people inside FFXIV it can be tough to find the drive to play or love for the game.
I thought I would share my own story for these people and really for any of you who are struggling with mental health to know that you are not alone and it will be ok.
Roughly 1 year ago my wife of 10 years decided she was no longer happy with the life we had built and our family of 3. She embarked on three months of every form of abuse you can perform against another of which I won’t go into detail here, by the end of this she was gone and our 6 year old and I remained.
Whilst I’m sure you can imagine the trauma and hell I went through in real life, what was especially tricky was that we were married in game, we shared a house, pooled funds, crafted gear etc. Suddenly my form of escape after my daughter had gone to sleep at night became a PTSD inducing hell.
Yet I loved this game, its story and themes, its characters and the people who played it anonymously alongside me, I refused to give it up. I changed servers and applied for multiple different statics until I eventually found a wonderful group of people (RR on Ravana) who helped push me to clear savage and ultimate content and occupy my mind.
Whilst my daughter was undoubtably my tether out of the darkness, when she had gone to sleep and the spiraling would begin there would be a message to jump on and raid FFXIV.
It’s been a year and my love of FFXIV remains strong and I will be forever grateful to its players for helping save the life of this fan.
If you are struggling please reach out to those around you, there are many wonderful people in this game who want nothing but happiness for you, you got this!
To commemorate my journey over the past year as a lover of tattoos I have had some notable characters inked by my wonderful artist who I’m happy to link in comments if not deemed advertising, spoiler warnings for key characters.
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I have seen quite a few posts on here with people going through traumatic circumstances and/or tough times and how if these are linked to people inside FFXIV it can be tough to find the drive to play or love for the game.
I thought I would share my own story for these people and really for any of you who are struggling with mental health to know that you are not alone and it will be ok.
Roughly 1 year ago my wife of 10 years decided she was no longer happy with the life we had built and our family of 3. She embarked on three months of every form of abuse you can perform against another of which I won’t go into detail here, by the end of this she was gone and our 6 year old and I remained.
Whilst I’m sure you can imagine the trauma and hell I went through in real life, what was especially tricky was that we were married in game, we shared a house, pooled funds, crafted gear etc. Suddenly my form of escape after my daughter had gone to sleep at night became a PTSD inducing hell.
Yet I loved this game, its story and themes, its characters and the people who played it anonymously alongside me, I refused to give it up. I changed servers and applied for multiple different statics until I eventually found a wonderful group of people (RR on Ravana) who helped push me to clear savage and ultimate content and occupy my mind.
Whilst my daughter was undoubtably my tether out of the darkness, when she had gone to sleep and the spiraling would begin there would be a message to jump on and raid FFXIV.
It’s been a year and my love of FFXIV remains strong and I will be forever grateful to its players for helping save the life of this fan.
If you are struggling please reach out to those around you, there are many wonderful people in this game who want nothing but happiness for you, you got this!
To commemorate my journey over the past year as a lover of tattoos I have had some notable characters inked by my wonderful artist who I’m happy to link in comments if not deemed advertising, spoiler warnings for key characters.
submitted by /u/Beladin7
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Continue reading...