This is Why You Feel Like An NPC

Dr. K’s Guide to Mental Health explores Anxiety, Depression, ADHD, and Meditation

#shorts #npc #mentalhealth

[kamenwaticlients]

Well damn my dialogue and reasoning tree has been updated. This makes me make sense.

[waka]

“ These children were overlooked or neglected and felt unimportant or “lost.” They were ignored/attacked for having needs or expressing themselves (especially anger) and decided to keep a low profile and instead focus on the needs/experience of others.”

[ghqebvful]

I'm not just an npc. I am that one character that barely gets rendered and doesn't ever do anything

[toompie]

Holy fuck this hit me like a truck. This is too accurate.

[paulgoogol]

In a decade or so npcs in video games may outdo us in terms of coversation.

[greedbun]

I used to live my life like a main character and then trauma caught up with me and I’m okay living in my secluded little npc hut for the time being to recuperate to be entirely honest lol. I’m confident that one day I’ll get back to all the fun missions and side quests and what not.

don’t look at “being an NPC” as a good or a bad thing… sometimes it’s simply the path you are on right now.

However, only you can change it.

[LukemDakuwa]

If you tell people to come to you more than you reach out to them, you're succumbing to this phenomenon.

[JDragon]

There’s also one case I can say to this. As someone that has Asperger’s Syndrome — routines also play a part of it to why we feel like it, like we’re Programmed to do the actions and say the same things over and over again, because not only due to it being our job, we’ve sort of adapted to it and locked ourselves into it (maybe even against our will).

On top of real life challenges - mainly, financial ones… I can’t break the program… or it’ll cost more than we bargain for. To feel like, I gotta stay Programmed as one, for I know the action once it takes place… and everyone else is leaving the job.

[letsreadtextbook]

It's ironic that the clip they use is genshin in which most dialogue options for the protag don't make that much difference

[receivedbeans]

Got this weird thing where it feels like I’m high whenever I’m in public. Like my brain turns to mush, comprehension tanks, observation tanks, intelligence tanks, negative emotions goes from anxious about being in public to practically incapable of feeling negative emotion. I feel like I’m swimming inside my own head, and physically looking at everything in 3rd person. Like I’m seeing myself over the back of my shoulder rather than from my eyes. Time also feels non-linear when I’m in public.

As soon as I get home I return to normal.

[K-]

Reminds me of the Star Trek Next Generation Episode: Tapestry. In it Picard chooses to undo a mistake in his life that leads him to become a completely different person. Instead of being captain of the Enterprise, he’s a lieutenant jr grade who as Q states “drifted through much of his career with no plan or agenda. Going from one assignment to the next, never seizing the opportunities that presented themselves…He learned to play it safe and he never EVER got noticed by anyone.”

[aboveendymion]

Never expected this to be a trauma response. I’ll definitely watch the video of trauma now

[davidlakhter]

I presume this is characterized by the phenomena of to varying degrees

[KanohiVahi]

This makes so much sense.. thank you doc! Needed to hear this! Been kinda struggling with NPC syndrome my whole life.
When I saw the name of the video I assumed this would be about not being active in conversations or such but this was so much more. Definitely made me think. And I didn't realize this could be connected to trauma as well. Might explain even more in my case

[ShopperKungVtuber]

i had a friend that i'm really happy to be with
but then yeah now he's not talking to me anymore now make me feel like i'm just a NPC to his story because he way more success and had more friend and people want to be with him more that's really make me feel hurt even more

[hellojudas]

Every day I hear another fact that makes me feel like I have a lot of unaddressed trauma to go through

[garrettbates]

An NPC:
- their outfits rarely change
- their responses are canned
- they adhere to routines
- they can't navigate in tight spaces without running into things

Me:
- my outfit rarely changes
- my responses are canned
- I adhere to routines
- I can't navigate in tight spaces without running into things

Am I neurodivergent with a trauma response characterized by depersonalization and derealization, or just an NPC? 🤔

[supremajullibeama]

ur so smart bro! Appreciate ya as u take a cool approach to psychiatry and is very hip n modern . compared to the outdated system !!

[bruh-chhb]

it is insane how every video that you make HITS HOME how is that even possible???? i mean everything you say is so relatable and makes sense

[Joaquin__]

“Sometimes” been like this my whole life