We explain Monogatari arcs as mental illnesses I'll start

but user... losing weight... ptsd... anorexia... it was the first thing that came to my mind....

Karen Bee - Overconfidence effect

Karen - Autism

This.

How I have seen each arc

Hitagi Crab - PTSD
Mayoi Snail - Loss and loneliness
Suruga Monkey - BPD, jealousy, selfishness
Tsubasa Cat - DID, regret

Forgot to post Nadeko Snake

Nadeko Snake - Self harm and bullying

crab - body dysphoria
Snail - mind blown to pieces by a car
Monkey - hyper sexuality
Cat - repressed sexuality
bird - ADD
bee - addiction personality
snake - autism
rouka - manipulative psychopath
Doll - dependent disorder
math - schizophrenia

Math is schizoid, no schizophrenic.

>the most braindead surface-level meaning of words you can imagine.
Omoi translates "burden." Meaning either literal weight, or emotional "weight." Again, the show doesn't try to obfuscate its metaphor in any way. By contrast, there is nothing in Senjouagahara behaviour that actually matches anorexia, the only connection is surface-level "hurr, loss of weight."
Same about everything else, Nadeko is never bullied and doesn't harm herself, Tsubasa Cat's text literally points out that multiple personalities is a fictional meme according to modern psychiatry, etc.

Nadeko stabs snakes and only makes her problem worse. If this is not about self harm I don’t know what is.

>“No, Araragi. Repelling a Jagirinawa by cutting up snakes isn’t wrong. Actually, it’s the right and proper thing to do.
>But it's not very effective unless you use snakes from Tohoku.
>“It’s not that killing snakes will remove a snake curse, Araragi─what’s important here is the cutting up of snakes. Here, the snakes are a metaphor for rope. Jagirinawa─nawa, rope. No matter how tightly you’re bound, cut the rope and you’ll be free.”
>“when it comes to these things─the process matters. If you kill snakes while a snake is possessing you, of course you’re going to make it mad.

Seriously, stop your "everything is metaphor" retardation. The supernatural snake curse represents a fucking supernatural snake curse, first and foremost.Even if you want to find a metaphor in it - at no point the snakes represent Nadeko herself. The Jagirinawa is spelled out to be human malice, and random snakes that Nadeko kills are random snakes that have nothing to do with her situation. The fact that she gets worse represents that responding to malice with a psychotic NO U isn't helpful.

And also both in Nadeko Snake and Nadeko Medusa the oddity didn't even exist until Nadeko effectively creates them herself. It's about how she always fancies herself as a victim when in reality she is the main source of her own problems.

In Nadeko snake the oddity was there because she got cursed. She just could not resolve it because of bad luck apparently.

>look up golden and lost child syndromes
>find a whole list of dysfunctional family roles
damnit user

What ? You have some of these problems ?

seems like it

Bless your heart, we’re all gonna make it.

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thanks user

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Crabs problem doesn't have anything to do with her body specifically though, its a metaphor for her not being willing to accept the weight of traumatic/confusing memories and feelings about those memories.

The show literally explains this to the viewer, how did you not get it?

Honestly I've always turned to Monogatari as a way to process shit because I feel like it's the only franchise that understands me

I like to think it's helped me mature a bit

Mark my words: We're all gonna make it.

Me too. The series taught me that the only way to truly be saved is to put effort in yourself rather than relying on others to do the heavy lifting for you. It's important to have people in your court to cheer you on, but at the end of the day, only you can take the first step. I really needed to hear that, and Monogatari told me it in a very sympathetic and not condescending way that really resonated with me. Pretty much what the other anons in this thread are saying, "to an extent we're all fucked, but we are gonna make it."

The entire series is about denial of personal problems because Ara-Ara can't deal with his personal problems so he hides them under the guise of wanting to help other people. Quite literally only when another person who he helped actually took their time to help Durarara back he actually started to become a better person. It's also exemplified by the fact that Ararageddon keeps getting bodied because he's also pointlessly martyrizing himself.