Recovering shut in who loves Omori

Omori is important to me for a variety of reasons, but the biggest by far is that it has helped me to understand and explain to others something that happened to me between roughly 2015-2020.

During this period of time, I dropped out of college, stopped leaving the house almost entirely and shut myself off from my loved ones. I became obsessed with a particular cartoon I liked when I was a kid (Invader Zim lol) and built fantasies in my head based on it that I chose over real life. I also struggled with anorexia which took over my life very quickly in isolation and I became quite sick, which made the isolation worse, creating a cycle of self destruction.

In 2019 I posted a thinly veiled suicide note to my old Facebook account, thinking nobody would see it or care. I was wrong, a friend reached out to me. She got me to come and hang out for the first time in years. Things started looking up for a while after that, however I was then pushed back into the dark by a certain pandemic that came with the worst timing ever. Never the less, I decided to begin my push for full recovery on July 20th 2020. It was the best thing I ever did, ever ever ever ever ever.

I first played Omori about a year after that and it absolutely tore me to shreds for obvious reasons. I practically played the whole thing back to back in a trance without sleeping. It was like if someone wrote me a 400 page google doc call out post but in the format of a game & also this person can read minds. I convinced all my friends to play the game and it was very therapeutic for me to be able to show them this instead of trying to explain what happened. I felt that it brought us all so much closer.