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I feel like a total idiot admitting this.
I am also freshly disabled, which obviously would affect a person's thought process, so.
Stardew Valley's day structure has literally helped me to accomplish more, with my disability, in my day than I could before I started playing. Note: this is NOT a result of 'getting better' through PT. It is a result of SDV helping me to re-shape my thoughts.
The nature of my problems mean I am physically unable to perform many tasks in a row, and get tired very, very easily. As an example, it took me over a year to be able to stand at the sink for 3 minutes and brush my teeth without having to spend an hour laying down afterwards, from exhaustion.
Basically I one day, on accident, wanting to do laundry had this thought: I should start my MACHINE first. Not, my clothes, or laundry. But machine, like in the game. Soo I did, I ran the laundry (then laid down) and I thought it was like smelting Iridium or something.
Somehow that thought ran into many more thoughts like how I might scoot a coop over, or a machine shed, to make moving around on my farm slightly more efficient. Of course we all do shit like this.
At that point I started seeing what all could be arranged to make my life slightly simpler. Lower stuff on shelves, move stuff around in drawers so more frequently used stuff is closer to me, etc.
Somehow this totally revolutionized my thought process and by gamifying my new, disabled lifestyle I was able to get a lot more done in each day and feel much better about myself.
I am so thankful for this game. It has been so helpful to me. This rambling might sound insane, but idc, it helped me man.
There have been times I've played a game a bunch and it affected my thought process, but it's never actually been useful to me irl, so that's really interesting. I'm glad that Stardew has been helpful for you. Thanks for sharing!