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Originally Posted by Rose76
I'm surprised at how many posters have reported this tendency.
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Well almost everybody daydreams to the point of zoning out at some time. It's hard to say how many have it so bad it's a maladaptive trait that does significant harm to their lives.
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Originally Posted by Rose76
Somewhere I read that daydreaming is a form of dissociation. That sounds right to me. It always did tend to make me somewhat absent to the reality around me. I wasn't escaping abuse, but I probably wasn't always getting my needs well met.
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That sounds like me. I retreat to it when I just can't bring myself to deal with it all. It's not like I was beaten or raped either, although I was mistreated. Badly enough to warrant all this? Compared to others? I don't think so. But how the heck should I know? I haven't lived other people's lives. Certainly I did not -- and still do not -- get certain basic human needs adequately met.
Sorry I haven't been keeping up in the depression forum. I hope you're doing okay Rose.
