I’ve been seeing a psychiatrist since I was a minor. I’ve continued taking medication every morning and evening. My doctor has told me that I need to keep taking it indefinitely, and that if I stop, I’ll end up hospitalized again and my symptoms will return. I apparently look perfectly normal on the outside—I get approached by men and seem like a healthy person. But in reality, I have a mental disability. Or rather, believing that helps me protect myself and get through life.

I’m Aya, a female member. I was extremely depressed for a while because of sexual harassment and workplace bullying at my first job. But, honestly, papa-katsu helped save me in a way—by allowing me to “capitalize on being a woman.” Until then, I’d felt that I had lost out because of my feminine side, if that’s the right way to put it—I tended to be timid, couldn’t stand up for myself against bullying, and couldn’t firmly refuse sexual harassment. In papa-katsu, though, femininity is an outright advantage. That was a real surprise（笑）. As I became busy with papa-katsu and working at a lounge, I gradually stopped going to the psychiatrist. Making money through papa-katsu gave me a sense of accomplishment and helped me regain my energy. I also happened to meet a certain papa. When we started spending nights together frequently, he realized that I had trouble sleeping, and he told me, “Let’s get you better.” In the end, I wanted him to praise me so badly that I even stopped taking the medication I had kept on hand like a good-luck charm. Just sharing this as one example for your reference.