depression

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According to Rusch, depression is about loss, loss of meaning, goals, control, agency, sense of self, focus, energy, and voice

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Elude Designing Depression-Rusch
- Elude is a game to foster empathy about depression, but runs into a fundamental problem that play is about control, and depression is about loss (of control). Decided to give the player some, only to wrench it away at opportune moments.
Bojack Horseman
- Bojack is one of my favorite shows, potentially of all time. On the surface it’s a show about depression, but I think leaving it at that doesn’t do it justice.