Using Items Causes the Protagonist to Feel Guilt

A survival RPG where every time you use a recovery item meant to heal or strengthen your wounded body, the protagonist suffers severe mental damage. Eating a medicinal herb leads to thoughts like 'I've taken a life from nature…', and drinking a high-grade potion prompts worries of 'Will I be punished for such extravagance?'. Intense guilt accumulates in the protagonist's psyche. When the 'Mental Gauge' reaches its limit due to overuse of recovery items, they fall into a severe depressive state, halving their attack power, or begin muttering self-loathing lines and refusing command inputs, pushing towards mental ruin in exchange for physical recovery. The ingenious infinite loop of self-inflicted mental damage, where the very act of recovery to withstand enemy onslaughts corners the player. It's a bizarre masterpiece that forces players to agonize between ethics and practicality: whether to survive on the brink of death without relying on items, or to break through by force while grinding down the protagonist's mental state.