My boyfriend gifted me this game so I gave it a and I'm very glad I did. It's genuinely been a very tough on-going journey with this game.

Because of how fast the game is, no magic or summons, no grinding levels or equipment, no shortcuts compared to other souls games and punishing aggressive spamming gameplay while rewarding engaging in fights while calm I quickly found out I have an inferiority complex with BPD. I figured this out because of my mental breakdowns, Sekiro is the reason I figured more about myself.

The inferiority complex is rooted with my abandonment issues I believe, I feel worthless when I die and that I'm useless, this kicks off my BPD believing everyone will leave me and pushes me into a mental breakdown.

What Sekiro is doing is aiding me in fighting against my inferiority complex by altering my mentality.

Instead of determining my self worth on dying, I get happy over the minor self improvement with each death. Especially when I learn a combo string. Set small goals each death to achieve instead of outright winning, it helps ^^

If a strategy fails, it's the fault of the strategy and doesn't mean you're worthless or flawed as an individual.

"I'm crap at this game, I'm stupid." upon death turns to "I figured out how to deflect 2 of the bosses attacks. I can work towards deflecting the third attack, I'm making good progress."

If I slip up and start melting down I journal the thoughts to reassure myself that I'm not worthless and that this is just my inferiority complex trying to force it's way into my brain.

Defeat will happen in this game, it teaches you to replace the hate from losing with love and admiration you got from self-improvement.

I also learned the brain applies everything you learn better upon resting, so taking breaks if it becomes too much will actually make you better!

This game actually feels like a form of therapy to me. It's structured similarly to therapy, if you struggle with similar issues please give this game a try.