Severe anxiety, depression, misophonia, it's a weird and toxic mix. Definitely one sick brain. I relate to Hanako the most, but not exactly the tragic and traumatizing past that caused her current state. I'm steady but distant from my family, most of my problems stem from loosing a lot of really close people to me, and a steady deterioration over the last 4 years. Just the way the game handled her attack...I mean, it's so harrowingly realistic how they portrayed an anxiety attack, and from an outsider's view...good god, it's surreal. I knew from the second the still of her frozen in place what was going on, hitting like a stone wall. And then there's all the little details. Her hiding away in the library, slipping in and out of class, and being so recluse in her room, missing entire days even. They even mentioned her hiding out in the bathroom, I mean my god, it's so dead-on, it's so chilling to think it's not an isolated thing. I think the worst part is how bad I ended up getting stuck on how the in-universe events unfolded. The support, the care, intricacy of it all. The staff understands, even some of the students (Misha, Shizune) understood and were damn good at handling it. Then there was Mutou's conversation afterwards, the line "This school is about giving you all a future that you would have been denied in regular education." -snipping a novel's worth of borderline melodramatic crap. drunk or not, alt account or not, i aint letting that much about me out- My life is still far from getting back on track, but seeing this was a big wake-up call. Even if it's fiction, it came from somewhere. And that somewhere means that I'm not alone. As much as it feels like I'm bullshitting myself, I still have a lot left in life, and this definitely was a fresh breath.