>>39746426Setting aside how sincere Gura's health issues, if she's doing it because she's burned out or because she's having daily orgies with 50 people or whatever else.
You have to be pretty sheltered and callous to not appreciate how this line of work can be extremely taxing, especially when it's a person as relatively famous as Gura.
You're under intense scrutiny by legions of people, many of whom would flip a tit if their illusion of a perpetually happy and seiso GFE is challenged.
You're doing a lot of work outside of just streaming. (training, preparing for events, merchandising, inevitable corporate tension)
You're forced to maintain a marketable image at all time.
You are bombarded to hell and back by ridiculously hateful messages and gossip regardless of how relevant it is. (and for anyone who's not obscenely secure of themselves or is very mentally balanced a nasty comment has much more affect than even a hundred positive but generic comments)
You have to deal with self doubts like "when is the bubble going to pop?", "am I really going to be able to get away with it all my life?", "Will I ever be revealed to be the imposter I feel I am" and the likes.
It no doubt presents a challenge to social life. (Like if a chuuba, not necessarily Gura, tries dating she risks being exposed by a butthurt ex, have trouble finding someone who doesn't think it's cringe, have trouble finding someone who isn't just a mindless fan, and so on)
Frankly I don't think I'd be able to do that for long even if by some miracle I could guarantee perfect opsec, it's extremely stressful.
Not to mention stress doesn't have to come from working more than the "average person".
Stress, depression and anxiety comes from fear, fear you're not doing enough, or not doing well enough, or what have you.
Even someone who has "comfortable" working hours can be extremely stressed and neurotic if they're invested in what they're doing or if they're not as invested as they feel they should be.
And that's not to mention that being a NEET is an absolute petri dish for anxiety and depression, while strictly speaking a professional Vtuber isn't a NEET they do share a lot of traits with them, traits which are exactly what germinates these issues, like not leaving the house much, living in front of a computer, having minimal social interactions and so on.
NEETs should supposedly have the least stressful lives out there, but they're generally horribly depressed exactly because of their situation.
Her work has precisely all the components for these sort of issues, and even if it didn't, the benchmark for mental well being is how you FEEL, not what you experience and if you "deserve" being treated for it or not.
If you feel bad and overwhelmed, it's a problem that needs and DESERVES to be addressed, no matter what led up to it.
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