in most of the rebirth books, the MC after getting the ML or the revenge suddenly gets cured of their mental health issues and/or depression, which is ok. Ok you got your partner and are living a good life so it's not got pressing issues on your mind anymore, but not this book.

After everything was done and villians were defeated, the MC collapsed. He was under so much pressure and had anxiety and stress disorder that before completing his revenge he didn't take a single break, thus as a result when his mind and body recognised that there's no more danger, it gave up and collapsed.

The most Lovely point of his recovery was showing how in reality you need doctors and medicine and your family's support to come over such difficult times.

" Little Madman's Guide To Acting Good "

The MC learns that the ML likes good behaving and obedient and not loud but not silent, overall good people and boyyy he acts such a calm cute good child in front of ML not knowing ML saw through each act of his from the first lie he told

So we can say MC acts good child for ml, thus the title is for ML lol.

Oh boy the villians here are scary as f. Really. They are good at their job, not idiots only to get trampled by MC. They have got their own personality and character development and smarts. Frankly the last issue which was resolved, scared me really really bad. Like it's scary that this happens in real life.

Again 10/10 for the villians because of well thought plans.

I love that this story addresses the treatment of mental illness in a factual and compassionate way without blaming the MC, though I think he has some serious PTSD, rather than a generalized anxiety disorder.

For my last point of why I feel the story is good but not great-- despite the author's attempt to portray psychological issues, I find it a bit odd how PTSD wasn't mentioned, and also the reactions of the MC's family to the mu*der attempts. It's true that the MC is the only one who knows how horribly his family dies in the other life, but clear attempts of mu*der were made on the brother/father of the MC multiple times, and it was kinda weird how calmly they took it. Look, if someone switched my medicine FROM THE BOTTLE or put a weird drug in my car I'd be paranoid for weeks. But it seemed like the brother/father of the MC were hardly effected. And even given their 'serious and rational' personalities that allow them to keep calm, unlike the MC (who is extremely anxious to the point of sickness), you'd think they might attribute some of his mental breakdowns to PTSD about the mu*der attempts, and not that he has an inherit psychological problem like long-term anxiety or depression. Plus, I'm not sure anxiety medications are the right choice if the real cause is PTSD/disassociation from flashblacks, which makes the last arc of the story quite sad. I mean, it's not like the MC is believed even if the says he's from another time line. There's also the mother, who keeps making the MC take chinese medicine... and TCM is just bad... it has little basis in science and some ingredients are from endangered species.

the MC friggin' spent 10 years to avenge them in his past life and ended up dying in front of his brother's tombstone but we rarely get any heartwarming moments betweem them.

the family didn't believe in his "dream"/past life he confessed to, they don't fully understand he has real underlying trauma. The ending although some may say is slow, is absolutely necessary for the MC and the readers to understand how important the MC's past is to not only affecting the MC's mentality on his current future but how it shows to the readers that this isn't just a cliche book where we'll act like the past of this character doesn't matter. Bc mental health is a real issue to be concerned about and just bc you got reborned, doesn't mean everything is ok up there in your head after I get revenge. The slow ending showing is recovery is necessary and important. That being said I wish they didn't just put him on meds. Nothing against meds, but the boy is truamatized. He needed therapy y'all. Sadly they don't think he's truamatized again bc they don't know that that sh*t really happened to him. They just think he's chronically anxiety and depressed which they take seriously enough to ask him to take medical treatment but Ahh it just makes you pity him so much bc of we as readers know that the family will never truly get to know his issues. But they are trying and it's truly heartwarming to see a real family who cares.

There are many scenes where MC is in a crisis situation, and he should be focused on the problem at hand... but every time this happens ML will suddenly appear and MC will be busy thinking about his past with ML while acting like a fool.

I mean MC character setting is someone who has a severe anxiety disorder regarding the safety of his family, but somehow that setting is forgotten every time ML appears, and the crisis problem also somehow feels paused.

Luckily this didn't change their character setting too much, or this story would have been completely ruined.