I wasn't sure where to put this. Sorry in advance if this is the wrong place.

So first some background. I'm a loner (severe social anxiety+depression) and have been largely isolated for years; I don't have any friends. I'm essentially a NEET. I only ever leave the house to run errands for my parents. I just don't have a life. So I generally dislike myself and my life. But I've also got a pretty good imagination and have always been kind of creative.

Often I come up with elaborate stories like "alternate timelines" to my own life. Usually I pick a point in my past and think about what I really wanted to happen, and rewrite my own history, as fiction of course. I'm an insomniac so I often brainstorm when I'm laying awake with nothing else to do. And sometimes I write them out. I've got several fairly long documents with these stories. Sometimes I get intensely focused on them, and it's like I live vicariously through them. I kind of ignore "real life" and focus entirely on my fictional reality.

I love the power of imagination; I can do or be anything. So I kind of escape into these alternate realities that I create in my head. I'm just wondering if maybe it's really a sign of schizoid tendencies or something. I dunno. Maybe it's just a pathetic quirk, or a weird coping mechanism.

Does anyone else do this? Or might it indicate some problem?