Depression?

[Raver*Raver]

I have been suffering depression for a long time now and I like to play sims as realistic as possible.
I watch my simself as he smiles and is always on the go.
But that is not truw, I'm not like that, is there any way to make my sims suffer from depression.

like:
-Sits/lunges on the couch all the time,
-if there a lot of sims in one room your sim well go to another.
-declines skill building and job sreaching.
-sad, angry, nasty thoughts
-more would be great,

anyway to make your sim suffering from depression??

[Peni Griffin]

I'm not sure why you want your sim to suffer as you have done, but you know better than I do what's best for you.

I have a couple of sims who for story purposes are depressed due to mourning a death, and in both cases I get the best results by just not controlling them except minimally.

Tommy Ottomas is at school, rooming with a couple consisting of a close friend and the sister of his dead girlfriend. I control him just enough to keep him viable and his grades up (since his stated goal is to learn the secrets of life and death and resurrect Spring, and for story purposes he's buried himself in his studies, so good grades are necessary; this is of course not a clinical depression, but obsessive behavior but whatever) and otherwise he eats, bathes, sleeps, and interacts solely on freewill. The result is that he wanders around the house in his undies a lot, wastes a lot of time online, and doesn't voluntarily interact with anyone outside his household. When his friends and family members invite him over he's started slipping away from groups and getting online, plus I'm changing his appearance periodically to gradually get that shagged-out, unkempt look. His relationships are all decaying, except for the friends he lives with, who are worried about him and do their best to engage him; and despite the occasional platinum mood after completing a term paper he spends most of his time in the low greens.

Spring's father has only one child left at home and I have him mourn at her urn at least once a day. The night of the death he took all his kids downtown, drank a lot, and assaulted a judge who objected to his flirting with a woman they'd both dated and later spent a lot of time talking to one of his surviving daughters in her bikini - I don't have InTeen, but it really was impossible to interpret the guy's behavior any way except "perving on jailbait" and there was no way Hi was in the mood to put up with that! When I do make decisions for Hi they're based on the conflict between his desire to pull himself together and take better care of the kids he has left and the desire to forget everything in a self-destructive riot of short-term pleasure seeking.

If you really want a sim to suffer, of course, just fulfill his fears rather than his wants, and you'll soon have him in the red; but actual aspiration failure may be more dramatic than what you're looking for. Sims in aspiration failure become violent, not listless. Keep him in the low, low greens in continual danger of falling into the red, and you'll probably get the behavior you're looking for.

[Raver*Raver]

That's actually pretty good, I like your story and would like to follow up up on it!

I have depression because I have a lot of anger built up and I don't know how to control it. all those hateful emotions built just plummited into depression, and everyone at school bullies me... a lot, I am a teen (in-game) you think if I put all of his relationships low you'll think he'll be depressed?

[Peni Griffin]

I think you'll get the most satisfactory results if you let it build up over time and adjust your approach according to his personality. It may take a shy teen a long time to get really lonely; an outgoing one will suffer more but will also put himself out there when not in your control (when you have another active sim on a community lot, for example) and approach people autonomously. His aspiration will also factor in.

I have to say we're exactly opposite in our approach to dealing with this. When I'm simming while depressed, the big draw is that I can force the little buggers to be happy whether they want to be or not.

[punkrockgoth1988]

That's actually pretty good, I like your story and would like to follow up up on it!Manic
I have depression because I have a lot of anger built up and I don't know how to control it. all those hateful emotions built just plummited into depression, and everyone at school bullies me... a lot, I am a teen (in-game) you think if I put all of his relationships low you'll think he'll be depressed?

If all your Sim Teen's relationships with his household members get too low he run away. You could definitely purposely not grant his wants as well and force him into a low aspiration level. That right there would be cause for angry/depressed behaviors... I suppose. As for the rest... You can't stop a Sim from rolling those wants but... Like I said, they can be ignored and you can make your Sim spend their day rotting their brain in front of the tv which for some people, a way to have a "social life" without having actual human contact in real life.

Also, I sympathize with you. That type of treatment from others is what I got in school too. I found I preferred computers far easier to cope with.

[StarlightBeauty]

I know exactly how you feel, but posting this here gets a lot of negative attention (as you can easily observe by all the ratings)
I just have to ask, why do you want your sim to be depressed?
I suffer from the EXACT same thing you do, but I never want any of my sims to be depressed. If you REALLY want your sim to be depressed then I'm sure someone can make a mod like that (maybe they already have?) You can check Sims 2 WCIF for a mod that makes sims sad. If there isn't one you can ask.

[gazania]

I've made my Sims depressed ... there are mods that can cause aspiration failure. Insimenator can do it, and I believe the blender can as well. (Many people prefer the blender, by the way.) It can be therapeutic in real life. (And if THAT doesn't work, you can always fashion versions of people who make your life miserable, and have the depressed Sim torment them.) In the case of teens, I pair that with a no-runaway mod. (Simlogical, I believe, though I might be wrong.) Do the usual precautions ... download the version compatible with your game, test before saving and check for jump bugs or "off" interactions, etc.

While I do purposely let a Sim stay in the red for a while, I like to have my Sim work through his or her depression, little by little, building gradually into the green. I've played the Sims while I was depressed as well, and enjoyed having them slowly become part of the neighborhood again. I don't make it easy for them, and they relapse, but I do let them become "normal" in time and better for it.

Hopefully, playing your Sim helps soothe you. Oh, and I was bullied as a child and teen as well, and the one thing that sustained me was that one day, I would be away from these !@#$s, and put them behind me. In time, I found true friends, and we helped each other ... people I'm still friends with decades later. It's not easy getting though those rough points, though, and it can take patience and yes ... courage. Please hang in there.

[Darby]

At the risk of being too OT, I have to say I agree with others who're concerned that constructing your game to mirror your real life struggles might not be the best idea. We reinforce and multiply what we focus on, so if you focus on misery, that will absolutely continue to be your experience.

If you focus rather on what you'd LIKE for your life to be like, you create opportunities for change! Your Sims 2 game could be a vehicle for exploring ways your life could be different.

That said, you know yourself better than anyone, and if playing your real life out in your game helps you cope, carry on. I just wanted to present an alternative to consider, if/when you're ready to. :)

[minpinz]

well you could kill all your sims friends, pets, burn down the house. you know anything to traumatize the poor sim. I have depression too and pretty severe but I find it relaxing to play the sims different from my own life.

[Saturnfly]

The only 'real' depression I've seen in the game is when sims cry for no reason at all, or walk down the stairs with their shoulders slumped and their head hung low.

I don't think the creators of the game wanted to depress their customers too much, since although it is based on the bare essentials of the real world, it is a completely stripped version of the real world.

Of course there are mods and poses that might be of use to you, but other than that, the game is about as depressing as a baby elephant.