Does anyone feel perfectly fine doing this?

[eternally a child]

or do you regret all of the years that have passed by? ive been doing this since i was 12 and am now 26. do you think this effects ever having real relationships or for me anyway-i had a lot of trauma growing up and in a way i feel like i cant function without the people in my head because even if they ''hurt''  me ill still be ''fine''

[Serenity River]

I wouldn't say "perfectly fine", but I don't really regret it.  I see myself as an underachiever at work, but everyone else thinks I'm doing just fine (I find myself thinking that standards in the real world aren't all that high!)  I can't find any motivation, or any real passion I want to follow in life; my work is just a means of financing a safe, undisturbed space so I can indulge in my fantasy life.  I wonder sometimes if I could be giving more to the world, as an intelligent and creative person, and that's really my only regret in all this.  My passion goes into my fantasy world.

[LJ]

Not perfectly fine, not willing to give it up, all at the same time.  I just wish I would not withdraw from everything when things get tough.......  Like choosing to stay home and dd rather than spend time with family during holidays.  Don't know why I do that.  Maybe safer then putting on airs for people I only see once or twice a year.  This year I am not in the mood to be around people.

[Kathy]

That's exactly how I feel LJ!

[Gale Potter]

I'm quite good with MD. I have extremely complex PTSD, the most extreme case my two shrinks have ever seen and one has been practicing since 1957 ( yah he's older than dirt LOL ) So...that should tell you how reality has gone for me. To me, real people are potential for drama to trauma. I feel that had I NOT tried to step out of my daydreams into the real world, my life would have taken a much better tack and I'd be saner and in a decent position today. I could have milked cows for a living ( daydreamed while doing it ) and taken correspondance courses or finished college as my health allowed. ( many of my health problems were due to other people ) I regret not embracing my fantasy life far more than I did. It might have saved me.

  BUT, that's me and most of you won't experience the extreme problems I encountered with my own species LOL

[LeAnn Marcum]

 I personally think that daydreaming gives our lives 'flavor' in a way. If I didn't have the power to daydream, then I think that life for me would be even more bland. But the one thing about daydreaming that I regret is letting myself sink so deep in it that I wasted about 2 years of my life actually believing that my fantasy world was going to come true, and losing track of how reality works. But I believe that there is some kind of middle ground.