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Unidealizing fictional friendships

A few days ago, I talked about how I tended to daydream about fictional friends and envy them. Like, first I will be really into them, usually because I really want a friend like one of the characters. Usually, it's because they are a good listener or because they're always around, etc.

And I've found that it's easier to stop daydreaming about specific pairs of fictional friends if I unidealize them, and I managed to do that, for the most part, by thinking more about the relationships…

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Added by Lily Morrison on September 27, 2013 at 6:46pm — 2 Comments

Envying fictional friendships?

Does anyone else envy the friendships fictional characters have? And if you do, what do you about it?

I don't think trying to make my friendships like theirs would be effective because all friendships are different. I cannot have the same relationship that someone else has because I am not them. But I also don't know how to get myself to stop.

I guess I would have to analyze what I like about the relationship and try to put that element into my relationships, instead of trying…

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Added by Lily Morrison on September 24, 2013 at 4:43pm — 2 Comments

a Plan to Quit

This post was posted on  my blog on blogger, but I feel like I should cross post it here. I've read a lot of Maladaptive Daydreaming blogs on the internet, and it seems like most people have a two step recovery plan:

  1. Stop themselves from daydreaming from moment to moment
  2. Fix the root cause of the daydreaming, usually by forming or developing their…
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Added by Lily Morrison on September 7, 2013 at 3:00am — 2 Comments

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