Seeing as people like me who have SA don't have any friends, do you have imaginary ones?
Imaginary friends are good because you can make the 'ideal' friend without all the BS. I have an imaginary friend (I'm 25 btw) called Zombie who has been with me since I was a kid. I talk to him for hours at a time and even take him to lunch (I always order 2 meals at my local diner). He never judges me or acts like an idiot. He is perfect.
Anyone else prefer imaginary friends to the real (but often disappointing) thing?
I had one until I was about 12, her name was Kiki. She had crazy red hair that stuck up off her head, overalls, green eyes, and she lived in my wall.
I love to write and sometimes I have conversations with my characters in my head. They can seem pretty real sometimes, and I wish they were.
Interessting, sounds even cool.
It is like theater in your head, or does your friend acutally respond by "himself" or do you make up the conversations for both.
This is really something that could be a relieve for loners.
Interessting, sounds even cool.
It is like theater in your head, or does your friend acutally respond by "himself" or do you make up the conversations for both.
This is really something that could be a relieve for loners.
Well, I can't explain it. He usually appears out of nowhere and takes me by surprise. He normally gives me advice when I'm in stressful situations and often walks alongside me whenever I venture into town or buy my groceries. I sometimes play chess with him but since he can't move the pieces he asks me to do so. For some reason, he always wins. I'm not sure why :um
I don't know why I haven't considered creating an imaginary friend. I prefer solitude most of the time. That's probably why. Plus my therapist might accuse me of psychosis if I were to tell them I have an imaginary friend. You don't have psychosis just because you have an imaginary friend, I'm not accusing, I'm just saying some people would think I'm hallucinating. I just can't do it though, I don't feel like putting in the effort to make an imaginary friend and I think it would make me sad to know he doesn't even exist.
I don't have an imaginary friend, but I talk to myself all the time because I'm lonely. I had imaginary friends off and on till I was like 12 haha. I usually pretended they were my sister/brother.
:ditto I talk to myself a little too much. Sometimes it creeps me out how much I talk to myself. I guess because I have so much pent up emotions that just come out when I'm by myself. But yea, use to have an imaginary friend when I was a kid, he had the weirdest name that I don't even know how to spell....Goalie.
I daydream about people from my favorite bands and TV shows all put together in this fantasy world of mine, with me at the center as a much cooler version of myself. I don't usually pretend these people are physically with me, I just daydream a lot of scenarios with them in my head. Enough to write books about.
No. Just a few "thinking" voices that I mentally talk to. That way I can talk to someone when I want and can be alone at the same time. It's nice. I can bounce ideas off of myself.
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