I can't remember exactly when, but it was around the time when I was playing a lot of Super Nintendo games on an emulator called ZSNES (I was around 10-15 years old).
There were some games in particular (Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Terranigma). One of the worst things about my brain is how deeply I imagine things and how immersed I become in the "worlds" of my imagination. I fell in too deep with these games, I enjoyed them too much, it's almost as if the stories that took place in these games became a part of my life. Playing these games were fun but beating them were always depressing. The amazing music that the composers for these games put together only makes things worse (the soundtracks for these games were just too good lol). As I'm typing this right now I can literally hear the "ending song" for Secret of Mana playing in my head lol. I think from there I became very disconnected from the world, I always was, but IDK it was just something about these games that made actual life (this reality) seem so mundane and pointless, like it didn't even matter.
My happiest moments were when my belly was full, I was home on vacation from school, and I was playing these games, and I could fully immerse and enjoy these worlds without distraction, without worry of bills or "adult problems", or anything like that. I swear everytime I beat one of those three games in particular my heart sank, it felt like I lost part of myself, like I lost something important. I was too attached to these fucking games lol.
This shit fucked me up for life lol. Real life in comparison to the worlds in these games just wasn't comparable. To make things worse I'm a lucid dreamer and my dreams are super detailed. So I'd get even more immersed. Real life just can't compare, and I don't mean in the sense that I didn't have a social life or sex life, I mean in the sense that even those other mundane things that I craved were more like a consolation prize. In other words, even the sex life and/or intimacy with girls that I wanted was just "secondary" when it came to my desires. I was always caught up in my dreams in a sense. This world from the start could never mean much to someone like me. Real life could never measure up to my vivid imagination and the worlds I immersed myself in.
I can understand completely why the suicide rate is so high in Japan. There are so many men there that have access to all of these artforms in their highest quality, and then after a few hours of bliss, they have to return to the regular world, in culture in which it's normal for people to work themselves to death because hard work is so ingrained in their culture lol. Real life can't compare to what they experienced in a few hours. To make things worse the Isekai genre is trending right now in anime, so these guys are just getting drowned in this shit. It's torture lol. I guarantee you the suicide rates have gone up recently.