hmm this is tricky for me, because i did miss them and i actually brought them back for a lack of some interesting imagination...

i talk to them, they care for me i care for them, they respond, they help me with my daily work... even tell me to check my take away dinner because the workers were trying to cheat me and she was right.

they help me with my life and if i make mistakes they react in tandem, they feel betrayed if i make mistakes i have to apologize... and make sure i convince them i won't do it again...

like just a few minutes ago i convinced her to abandon me and maybe revisit in 10 years time just so i can concentrate on my life in these 10 years.. and she agreed...

then reading back what i wrote here... sometimes its stranger that she's not real than being real.

for me its a daily involvement and a lot of times these friendly hallucinations make me happy...

so of course yeah i can relate to what your saying...

but of course people with our affliction know that there are horrible sides to this affliction too.

best wishes

Frokly