For Keeping up Appearances and Paths of Memory and Painting, I appreciate their artistic expression very much. Some sentences seem ordinary and unambiguous, but when I put the curser up, the unnoticed words appear. This expression is very similar to that of depressives. They often show a positive side in their daily communication with other people, but more often, they hide their negative emotions and show them only when they are alone.
As hypertext narratives combined with pictures and texts,My Body makes readers feel more depressed. I was afraid of the images of each body part. The black strokes seemed like an abyss devouring us, like illustrations beside the story of Frankenstein I read when I was a child. There are many hyperlinks in the article. When I click them, I will find another experience of the author. The sense of substitution in this article is very strong. For a time, I was in a trance. I saw my self-reported experience, as if I were drowned by endless ridicule and discrimination.
I like the description before the game Depression Quest starts. These words and background make the players feel the heaviness of the atmosphere. These descriptions not only serve as risk tips, but also enable players to immerse themselves in the scene set by the game in advance. The details of the game are carefully arranged, with noisy photos and text background, allowing players to swing between various options. In this game, every choice is very important. It can decide the next choice. For example, sometimes, even if the game gives me five options, I have only one choice due to my previous actions. And the choices that are usually crossed out by the red line are more positive, which may also explain the problem faced by patients with depression: even if there are ways to improve their mental health, they still need external help. The game has no ending and no particularly negative self mutilation behavior, so I think it is relatively "cured". It can make players aware of the problem of depressive symptoms and give suggestions - although it is obscure and obtained from options.