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Depression / Sadness after completing a videogame?

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My special interest is video games and I love them because I can imagine me in the world and get really super attached to the main character like I was him! I always listen to the music related to the videogame I am currently interested in when I am not playing it like when I'm walking to work etc, it helsps me imagine me in that world again. Over the past few weeks, I've been relating my imaginary life to Infamous Second Son on the Playstatin 4, now that I've completed the story on both good and evil playthroughs, there's nothing else I can do in the game and I feel my imagainary bond has been detached again, this I think makes me depressed or sad that I have no world to relate to again until a new game comes out or another game that I feel like I'll bond with the character again! Just wondered if anyone else understands this type of feeling or had this type of feeling before? I mean.... I just wish a videogame would last forever, it's really difficult to feel like I've saved the world, done everything possible then it's... over.... it just feels like I have to wave a massive goodbye to the main character remembering every single moment and adventure we had together.

It is really annoying, when I'm playing the game... I really want to see the ending and what happens then when it's over, I just wish that it lasted longer!

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  • I still have to combat a similar emotion to this even as an over 50 researcher adult.

    Mine is linked to people and places, and my first true recall of this goes back to around 6 years old when a relative i was fond of had stayed, but was going home.

    I now understand that this went on through later life, and even though it is common that people regret a time with friends etc is over, mine was/is this asperger highly enhanced version. It affected the way i related to situations in many other ways, and could now if i let it.

    I also experience this with holidays or even simple day trips, where as a feeling it is too intense a style of emotion in the circumstances. Also depressing feeling you are describing and the emptiness feeling - it can actually impact quite a lot.

    I still get the effect and have to 'out think it'  - and while now as a aspergers researcher it is interesting, i do wish that by having an awareness it was equal to not having that impairment effect at all.

    But it still happens, and didn't get any opportunity to discuss it in an aspergers context, but it is worth seeking some cognitive support to help with such feelings.

    It is certainly would have done had so much been available as there is today, and i may still do so - some things we cannot do without support from elsewhere no matter what we learn about by ourselves, or even by knowing quite a lot about aspergers after trials errors research so on.

    I feel that this effect is one of the many that help define aspergers as it is unseen and not clinically detectable. It is because of these matters and others that children today can depend greatly on such descriptions for when parents are making sense of it all and seeking a statement.

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  • I still have to combat a similar emotion to this even as an over 50 researcher adult.

    Mine is linked to people and places, and my first true recall of this goes back to around 6 years old when a relative i was fond of had stayed, but was going home.

    I now understand that this went on through later life, and even though it is common that people regret a time with friends etc is over, mine was/is this asperger highly enhanced version. It affected the way i related to situations in many other ways, and could now if i let it.

    I also experience this with holidays or even simple day trips, where as a feeling it is too intense a style of emotion in the circumstances. Also depressing feeling you are describing and the emptiness feeling - it can actually impact quite a lot.

    I still get the effect and have to 'out think it'  - and while now as a aspergers researcher it is interesting, i do wish that by having an awareness it was equal to not having that impairment effect at all.

    But it still happens, and didn't get any opportunity to discuss it in an aspergers context, but it is worth seeking some cognitive support to help with such feelings.

    It is certainly would have done had so much been available as there is today, and i may still do so - some things we cannot do without support from elsewhere no matter what we learn about by ourselves, or even by knowing quite a lot about aspergers after trials errors research so on.

    I feel that this effect is one of the many that help define aspergers as it is unseen and not clinically detectable. It is because of these matters and others that children today can depend greatly on such descriptions for when parents are making sense of it all and seeking a statement.

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