Animal Crossing New Horizon Therapist Review | 5 Professional Mental Health Tips | Family Friendly.

Animal Crossing New Horizon released on March 20, 20 20 a perfect timing for everyone being shelter at home due to Covid-19. In this video I'll review the game from a professional therapist perspective and explain how to play this game in a healthy way for you mental health.

Animal Crossing New Horizons sets in a deserted island which allowed you to move in and make it alive again day after day. You can talk to your villagers witness the transformation of your deserted island turning into your dream world. Of course, a lot of hard work needed to take place, such as cleaning out the weeds, collecting materials farming money, and doing exploration by digging, fishing, catching bugs.

You can fully customize your characters by skin color, hair style, clothing, accessory. You can really shine as who you are in every single way. The visual is absolutely cute and lovely the music is always relaxing in Carmen and there's always something to do every day.

Animal Crossing New Horizons creates a perfect environment for people to relax and chill from all the chaos and uncertainty of the world. At the first few weeks of its releasing, the game received overwhelming positive praise from players around the world, I think the game helped improving the general mental health during these weeks.

My husband and I loved the game so much that happens many hours on it since its launch. However I started to realize something has changed shortly after the overwhelming amounts of Animal Crossing New Horizon cheats, tricks, tips, show-off screenshots taking over all the social media, people began to feel pressure of comparing with their procession, the appearance of Island and fashion of characters.

The fear of missing outs and the frustration of not having the same thing as your friends or people online started to cause unnecessary anxiety among players. Even in the game, items in sharp change every day and the game was designed to reward you by logging in every day and making every achievement.

Slowly the joy of checking in the dream world every day turned into a chore which was much more boring and frustrating. Again this cause negative effects on mental health too. Now when I look back and returned to Animal Crossing New Horizon after stopping for a while, I asked myself how to play this game in a much healthier way so that it will be beneficial to people's mental health.

Here are some tips from me a professional therapist in real life. First, play at your pace, take it slow or fast in process, it's depending on your own, not your friends, not game developer or anyone you meet online. Second, enjoy the discovery. Stay away from all the too much detail cheats, or tricks about the game.

One of the fun aspects is to explore and to discover the unknown yourself by simply playing the game. Third, it is ok to be imperfect. No one can have every single item in the game, so please accept that it's okay for you to not have certain items and not get certain rewards.

Forth, celebrate instead of resenting. When something great happened to your friends or even strangers, let's celebrate it and be joyful instead of resenting, why this happened on you and becoming grumpy. Fifth, smell the roses along the journey. Outcome is important but it's more essential to enjoy the process in every single step.

You will find more joy if you value the process as much as the result. Animal Crossing New Horizon is a wonderful family friendly game for both children and adults. Beautiful graphic designs, relaxing music, tons of teachable moments about friendship and managing money, perfect platform for expressing creativity and imagination Please note that's only one primary residence player can fully control the islands per console device which means you have to buy the second Nintendo Switch if you want to play the full wholesome gameplay experience with your family and friends.