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Please, just let it be depression. At least, I can deal with that.
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Depression is a bit more complicated. I know from an outside perspective it seems like they just sleep, but it’s more than that. You feel like you have zero energy. Like taking one step is equal to 100. But you don’t just casually fall asleep like narcolepsy.
That’s not depression imo. Depression would be being stuck in the bed, not getting up at 4:30 casually doing stuff, you don’t get the happy moments like that, playing with the cat is like lifting a 5000 pound weight.
The lack of energy doesn’t mean you pass out like she does. Literally passing out mid conversation multiple times. This is a health condition, not mental health but I’m dumb
That’s not depression imo. Depression would be being stuck in the bed, not getting up at 4:30 casually doing stuff, you don’t get the happy moments like that, playing with the cat is like lifting a 5000 pound weight.
The lack of energy doesn’t mean you pass out like she does. Literally passing out mid conversation multiple times. This is a health condition, not mental health but I’m dumb
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Yuna's needed to go to therapy since long before Ch. 1. This is essentially "Unhealthy Coping Strategies: the Manga". The sleep problem is a new worrying issue but before that, her family fucked her up and she needs help.
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So … yeah, that does seem like depression. That said, there's really no telling how much of this was Yuna masking—while she inadvertently tied her self-worth to sex, mistaking the escapism of pleasure for validation through service, I don't think her previous internal chapters showed hints of anhedonia.
That said, depressive episodes are cyclical, and maybe they just never recognized this before.
Either way, I'm not sure it's a popular notion in Japan (or in Asia in general, sadly) to go see a doctor for mental health problems. The movement for mental health awareness barely picked up past halfway through 2010s; doctors who weren't psychiatrists were usually not equipped to handle the problems, and stigma was still pretty strong around the idea.
(Hell, my own mom said I won't need to go see a psychiatrist because "only a crazy person sees a psychiatrist", and I majored in Psych of all things.)
These girls may need therapy, but more than that I think they mainly need couples' counseling. They have baggages that they recognize had scarred them and shaped the way they interacted, but neither ever addressed it and both just resorted to sex as bonding activity. They need to find a better way to both introspect and communicate, and given how the culture was like around there, I can't say I blame them.
That said, depressive episodes are cyclical, and maybe they just never recognized this before.
Either way, I'm not sure it's a popular notion in Japan (or in Asia in general, sadly) to go see a doctor for mental health problems. The movement for mental health awareness barely picked up past halfway through 2010s; doctors who weren't psychiatrists were usually not equipped to handle the problems, and stigma was still pretty strong around the idea.
(Hell, my own mom said I won't need to go see a psychiatrist because "only a crazy person sees a psychiatrist", and I majored in Psych of all things.)
These girls may need therapy, but more than that I think they mainly need couples' counseling. They have baggages that they recognize had scarred them and shaped the way they interacted, but neither ever addressed it and both just resorted to sex as bonding activity. They need to find a better way to both introspect and communicate, and given how the culture was like around there, I can't say I blame them.
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