Posted by CarolAnn on March 21, 2000, at 19:14:42
In reply to Is this depression?, posted by Janice on March 21, 2000, at 12:27:19
Hey Janice, I love my "bed" time too, and have always used daydreaming to escape reality. I would say that this behaviour is not depression, it is they way that we "medicate" our depression, that's why it feels good. "Self medication" is actually a psychological term, and means just what it says. For example, some people might drink in order to escape reality, they are using alcohol to self medicate. A lot of self destructive behaviours are really ways of trying to make the pain of reality go away. Although, I don't think that daydreaming in it's self is destructive, like anything it can be over done. I know that I quite literally "lost" the whole decade of my 20's to daydreams. I was so caught up in "dream" lives, that I had no "real" life at all...I lived reality just barely enough to hold down a job and keep myself housed, clothed, ect.
Now, I still daydream, but thanks to two years of therapy, I have a "real" life too, and though I still need to escape into them(on bad or "bed" days)I don't rely on daydreams for my whole existence. Boy, this got long winded, didn't it?
Anyway, to sum up: Staying in bed with your daydreams is not depression, it is your escape from depression. Does that make sense? CarolAnn
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