>>19825818You asking me?
Oh my god...where i can start from. Because my english is not very good but i have so much to tell about depression and pokemon.
First:
It was that year when they started to show pokemon in my country. It was the middle of winter holidays when there was an episode of "School of hard knocks" or something like that. Also i remember watching that episode about young self-taught stadium leader who was using whip to control pokemon and at the same time was really nice to them - also during winter of first season.
Anyways...my mother and grandmother were extremely bitchy at that period. Grandmother hated my mom and always was forcing her to move out, calling her slut, so they both had 'better' stuff to care about... They always had fight with each other and at the end mother always was leaving home and not coming back for a week or so. So i was in depression already because i started to understand that i have no family at all. I had no friends and suicide thoughts were in my head.
Add to this the situation when my "childhood dog" died after christmas. I was literally crying for three days in non stop because i didn't wanted to live. Grandmother was trying to make me stop crying, but the only thing her brain could come up with was "stop it or I'll call an ambulance".
The only thing that was good - winter holidays so i didn't had to go to school in such a bad condition so none of kids knew what happened with my life.
Of course pokemon instantly captured my attention and won my heart. It was a world where lonely kid was going on an adventure, travelling around the world with his best friends. My god i was watching every episode wihth such an fanaticism.
This series was pure escapism for me. I think that first season of Plato Indigo helped me to deal with my depression and bad times. Most of episodes were all about finding friends and not giving up. Most of them had that tear dropping story. And most of all - in pokemon world you are never alone
