Discussion Daydreaming as a problem and a solution at the same time.

[DominusWreck]

I wasn't socialised properly as a kid, didnt have a ton of friends, and I don't really enjoy company, unless these are people whom I've known for years, and the older I am the more severe it gets. Can't really imagine myself being happy in a crowd of more than 3 people. Certainly won't have any fun.
Anyway, I live alone in a foreign country and so I don't have anyone here to talk to. And so I talk to myself or to the imaginary characters that I created in my head. I did this as a kid, and this habit developed in the adulthood. In fact, these conversations in my head feel much better than most conversations I've ever had.
This daydreaming is intensifying the more time I spend alone, and now with coronavirus I suspect this is gonna be a very long period.
I feel like this daydreaming is what kept me sane as much as this term still applies to me.
Who else got it like that?
The daydreaming I mean? Do you feel that you daydream instead of doing something in real life?
And I also feel like the longer I spend alone the more difficult it will be for me to get back to somewhat that reslemebles normality when I get back to my home country.

PS: I live in Finland, a very lonely and boring place for natives too...

 

[BitterlyAlive]

I definitely engage in maladaptive daydreaming. It's a way for me to dissociate from the pain of life. It's really not a very healthy coping mechanism, but we all do the best we can and it's okay. It's something that seems childish and embarrassing, but it seems quite common - at least among people like us.

I will admit I get so involved in my head and daydreams that I act it out, I respond irl to what's going on in my head. It looks so stupid but I limit that to when I'm alone. Just a part of maladaptive daydreaming.

 

[DominusWreck]

I definitely engage in maladaptive daydreaming. It's a way for me to dissociate from the pain of life. It's really not a very healthy coping mechanism, but we all do the best we can and it's okay. It's something that seems childish and embarrassing, but it seems quite common - at least among people like us.

I will admit I get so involved in my head and daydreams that I act it out, I respond irl to what's going on in my head. It looks so stupid but I limit that to when I'm alone. Just a part of maladaptive daydreaming.

Yeah, I guess it is what kept me from walking out of the window for all these years really. I sometimes try to escape the people in my head and I prohibit myself to talk to them, when I need to do something that requires attention, as daydreaming keeps you in some kind of a limb.

I keep them away for a week, and then they come back slowly....

 

[BitterlyAlive]

Yeah, I guess it is what kept me from walking out of the window for all these years really. I sometimes try to escape the people in my head and I prohibit myself to talk to them, when I need to do something that requires attention, as daydreaming keeps you in some kind of a limb.

I keep them away for a week, and then they come back slowly....

Yeah, sometimes I can "get away" from it. I actually find that when I feel really, really bad I don't daydream as much. It's weird. I just focus intensively on life and my issues.

 

[Jojo81]

Even I got maladaptive day dreaming and that's how I spend my time