How many of you Gintama helped go through something difficult?

I'll start, I was in high school and my brother fell very ill for a very long time (later it was confirmed to be a chronic illness), I was traumatised I think, I was already an anxious person and had school phobia but my anxiety skyrocketed from that point.

Around this time I picked Gintama once again (had dropped it a year before, bc not enough episodes were released), it was incredible how this taught me how to laugh again, and it was the only time of the day I would truly feel safe/at home with the yorozuya family.

I also met wonderful people online with whom I shared many good memories and we're still friends to this day.