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I recently received an invitation to a TTRPG Discord community and was afraid to accept it. I spent a few hours debating. The TTRPG community is wonderful as a whole, but some established people have openly opposed me, and that hasn't been good for my mental health.
I realized that I had nothing to fear, that, even if one of them were there (Spoiler: they weren't), it would be an opportunity to sit down at the virtual inn and work out our differences.
But that anxiety reinforced my awareness that I need professional help, and my first therapy session starts tomorrow, finally fulfilling my New Year's Resolution.
Sanist terminology permeates our language, even worse in TTRPG terms, and when I ask people to use other expressions, they look at me like I'm…yeah. Exactly. Consequently, mental illness carries a stigma that discourages those who need help from getting it.
How different would our world be if we treated psychotherapy like physical therapy? I've never heard anyone stigmatized for getting PT after a sports injury.
If you're regularly the target of psychic attacks, no matter the source, getting training to build up resistance to psychic damage is just good adventure prep. Everyone finds themselves in the Underdark at some point, so if you can develop a class feature that enables you to stare down a mind flayer, don't hesitate to level up!
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