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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SnowleopardVK" data-source="post: 5630944" data-attributes="member: 6677945">Very good point. I've had experience with this issue.Due to arguments, fighting, stubbornness, and stuff like that I've spent the past few years having a very unstable relationship with my parents. I'm just now managing to get over it, and I'm only managing to do it by cutting ties with them completely, going on government support while I finish university, and supporting myself after that.A good number of my friends don't really understand the stress and emotional problems the situation brings up, especially because I try not to trouble them with it. Many give the unhelpful "get over it" advice, some don't understand that a person and their family aren't obligated to love each other and say I should try to fix things with my parents. It's advice like that that makes me not want to socialize with them while I'm in a bad place.On the other hand there are a few friends of mine who understand. Most of those have gone through depression, and a few don't like their own family (maybe not to the degree of hate that I have for mine, but it's still something we can agree on). Those friends are the people I truly love, they're the ones who I want to socialize with when I'm depressed because just being with them reminds me that things aren't all bad, and as it happens they're the ones I game with.So this was just my personal opinion on it. I like gaming when I'm depressed because the people I game with are the people I love. If they were just people that I liked, or worse, people I didn't really like then I probably wouldn't want to game when depressed. I'd want to be doing whatever the people I love were doing so that I could be with them.</blockquote>

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