If im honest, It helps to picture you to fight and overcome, but as a cyclical pattern person, I can only tell you that It is what it is... Sometimes people fears more the fear itself than the act they are allegedly fearing.
I talked about suicide and that part of my life on hive before, in a really old post... like 2 years ago. Depression has a way to make you fear it, to make you be so scared of falling that when you do, you have no wall, no protection, nothing to fight it off... Its hard to describe it, but basically, dont get a divorce if you are an aut, it destroyed me, Including someone in my life took me years, and ending things took me a lot more than that, and losing everything without going insane was harsh.
So what I could advice, try to not make her play such a character, instead, build a depressive game, something that suffocates the player and they have to play their concepts in a more cunning way to beat it, make them face a weakened version of their ongoing lives, and you will see how the game might introduce changes to them. For example, if not for the existance of two friends and the bloody game darksouls, i would not be alive here today, so roleplaying helps, IT HELPS A LOT.
First of all I'm sorry to hear all of this. I hope you the best..
And I'm not pushing her and did not push her to create such a character that was just a conversation between her and me 🙏🤗
The second.
I will never try to create depressive game knowingly. I can introduce some problems and some issues regarding hardcomes and the group needs to overcome them somehow. But the game itself should be totally fun. Okay there can be some defeat. There can be loses.
But overall arc and theme of the game should not be depressive. And I suggest every dm to be careful about this.
Tabletop games are places that we can hangout openly and have some fun. We can figure out how to save the town and how to beat the bad guy.
The bad guy can be the god of depression. Nothing more.
In my table and the tables I'm playing at, we eat pizza and roleplsy some stupid shit together so... most depressive or sad we've become was the loss of the town, friends and families.
I don't know if I was able to explain myself clearly 😄 but long story short, I love safe spaces.
We are trying to understand our real life fears and depressions on the table as well but not 100%. Just time to time 🤗🤗🤗🙏🙏
And I agree. Role-playing helps tremendously. I survived the covid Era thanks thanks to role-playing tabletop games. 👏🙏