Mimi's manga / #Generalized Anxiety Disorder(2)

...... hard. disappointing. sigh. I was gonna add more to this but that's really all my thoughts. I really didn't like how they depicted generalized anxiety disorder in this. As someone with avpd and gad, it felt like they tried but knew only what they saw on twitter about social anxiety and being an introvert.

I actually want to fucking scream. I've never... Related... To a character so hard like I did with Soushi when reading this. Reading about him talk about how being into metal music and his intimidating look prevented people from talking to him hit me like a train. Seeing him dealing, growing, and how his social anxiety and possible GAD kept him from conveying important shit or even living a goddamn life felt like I'd been thrown off a fucking plane. The way Soushi tried to speak up made me cry more than once because I know... I know how that feels when you're on the verge of passing out because there's so much weight on you to speak. Coming from someone with AVPD and BPD and struggling with that constant tug-of-war of wanting to speak, wanting people to just not hate or be disappointed you, and wanting to keep the people who are nice to you close while so much of you is scared to do or say anything all at the same time fucking sucks. I've been that person starting from 5th grade that had a wore that depressing look, that intimidating-ish face just so people wouldn't come up to me. Hell, I still do! The moment I had with this book... Anyway, the story was great, I had an existential crisis, and I'm looking to buy this physically. Update 10/20/25: WHO KNEW THAT SUBLIME WOULD BE THAT BITCH! Yes, I bought this in Japanese because I loved this so much that I needed it on my shelf. Yes, I bought this in English TWICE because I needed this on my shelf but I wanted to read it the night of release and ebooks are cheaper.