Raising a Bat
4.5
Good representation of mental health (depression, trauma and anxiety) and a good portrayal of how, without the needed help, it can affect one's life and the relationships we have, specifically close relationships as it is a dating one.
The toxicity of the main character is not justified, but we can understand why the protagonist is the way he is. His character development is really good as it is realistic in the way that mental health is not easy to deal with and that there is not always happy moments. One can fall again in the cycle of depressing thoughts and make mistakes. As this, even thought the main character learns more or less how to deal with his anxious thoughts he still commits mistakes that latter he realizes that has to fix through communication (even tho that is something very hard to do for him and for the love interest).
This is not a fluffy story about a sweet romance, but the love story of two introverts that have a really hard time because of trauma, mental health problems and society.
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