8 Ways Video Games Make You A Better Person
1. They Can Help You Work Through Difficult Emotional Issues
And finally, video games can be enormously helpful to those suffering through emotional difficulties. While games won't necessarily provide the answer to mental health woes, they can at least make players feel seen and appreciative that somebody else shares their perspective.
Games like Celeste and Night in the Woods have offered up trenchant, thoughtful examinations of depression and anxiety, while Spiritfarer delivered one of gaming's great meditations on grief and loss, and Hellblade, despite its dark fantastical leanings, depicted psychosis in a shockingly nuanced manner.
Though mental health is a tough subject to broach in any medium and requires a great degree of delicacy, video games' uniquely interactive nature as an art form arguably makes them far more tactile and better equipped to reach out and connect with those afflicted.
Again, games can't make mental health problems go away, but they can at least assure you that you're not alone - something we all need to hear every once in a while.