Quote Originally Posted by CrownySuccubus View Post
That's another thing that irks me about Endwalker's story. I don't want to take anything away from all the people on YouTube, Reddit and Twitter claiming that Endwalker was just what they needed to deal with terrible things in their lives. If it helped those people, then good for them. But being someone who actually works in a field that deals with victims of abuse and hate who are often a single step from taking their lives, Endwalker's form of copium is aggravatingly oversimplistic to me.
This. As someone with major depression, EW just felt full of platitudes to me. Reminded me a lot of the unhelpful advice I've gotten over the years like "think positive" and "practice gratitude".

There was a thread on Reddit a couple months ago where some people with depression spoke out about how they felt the themes of EW were problematic, particularly that anyone with mental illness would've been turned into a blasphemy so only the healthy and strong of mind would've survived. I realize that wasn't the writers' intention, but like most of EW it's just another thing they didn't think about as much as they should have.

Quoting one of the posters:

"I firmly believe that the story was written by people with very little experience of depression/mental illness as a whole. Thematically the expansion was incredibly shallow.

The story the writers tried to convey was executed in an incredibly heavy-handed, patronizing way. 'Just have hope and don't give into despair, silly.'"