I think none of the tv shows i watched until now had the same effect on me than The Bear. This one messed me up so bad and healed me at the same time.
When it came out i was still a teen and it was months or maybe a year since things started to get really bad in my family, and i was finally coming out of the denial and accepting the fact that i lived in a dysfonctionnal family
And also my sibling tried to end their life :')
So yeah it hit REALLY hard, idk the timing was spot on. I saw myself in Carmy, and also his anxiety (something i also was in denial about because i couldn't accept that i was not "normal" as I wanted to disapear so much) and the fact that he suffered a lot from being shy and weird when he was a kid. It hit home. And thank god my family situation is not as bad as the show and i feel very lucky but I FELT SO SEEN, and i needed that so much!! I mean there's not really room for communication in dysfonctionnal families and i was so lost and couldn't find the words or understand properly and i felt so useless for my sibling. So yeah this healed me, and idk i really want to be nice, i want to be a good person