Your story reminds me of this guy's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viP4psS3MUQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viP4psS3MUQ (Dark Souls Helped Me Cope With Sui

Your story reminds me of this guy's: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viP4psS3MUQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viP4psS3MUQ (Dark Souls Helped Me Cope With Suicidal Depression). I rather enjoyed his other videos, despite the verbosity/pomposity, but this one stood out to me because I had a similar experience playing Celeste. Unlike Dark Souls, Celeste is difficult in a more straightforward manner, but the story (about perseverance and facing anxieties and climbing literal and figurative mountains) is also much more integrated into the gameplay.