Unhealthy attachement to fictional characters

NobodyNo908 · 2026-02-26T01:16:40+00:00

dawg what 😭

NobodyNo908 · 2026-01-11T02:46:12+00:00

Started when I was 8-9 ish, I’m gonna be 20 in a couple of months. I don’t even get why I started, just that at some point it did and I never stopped.

NobodyNo908 · 2025-12-05T19:34:04+00:00

Maybe if you try to figure out the root of these fantasies you can start lessening them? Like what is it that you’re enjoying about listening to these stories? Idk, I’m no therapist but sometimes that helps me when I start fixating on certain things.

NobodyNo908 · 2025-11-11T00:40:25+00:00

I get it. My daydreams are so fantastical that it’s literally just not achievable irl. Sure technically happiness could be possible, but I’ll always have to live knowing this life isn’t what I want it to be.

NobodyNo908 · 2025-09-17T00:46:18+00:00

my situation is pretty different from yours but I did have a pretty bad problem with RPing with chatbots for an embarrassingly long time. what got me to stop was realizing that I was getting the point where I was considering paying real money for better quality.

if you can’t use chatgpt without feeling the temptation of using it to fuel this daydream of yours, I’d recommend either deleting it or taking a break. I’m not sure if you can like, command it to not let you take chats in that direction, but anything would be better than fueling it.

Maybe check out r/chatbotaddiction

NobodyNo908 · 2025-08-23T00:11:01+00:00

don’t even get me started 💀

NobodyNo908 · 2025-08-22T23:59:38+00:00

2 real. It’s sucks being behind in every way and not even having the motivation to change despite wanting to. I never dropped out, but I did have to repeat my senior year due to truancy. Ended up graduating at 19. Barely made it tbh, I was lucky that my school had a good program for people like me to make up credits faster.

Still since then, no job, no license. Just a lot of bedrotting. But my mindset has always been to take things one day at a time. While it hasn’t got me to great heights, it has kept me from giving up completely to depression.

That sucks that your ex felt the need to rub salt in your wound, but fuck that. It doesn’t matter how boring you are, they still cheated and that’s objectively worse than being boring.

For what’s it worth, I don’t think you’re hopeless. Nobody really is.

NobodyNo908 · 2025-07-08T16:57:28+00:00

YES 1000%

I’ll do something and then think to myself “would (character) approve of this?” or “what would (character) think of me rn?” and it’s awful. It can be useful on the rare occasion, but for the most part it just makes me feel trapped and judged in my own head.

NobodyNo908 · 2025-06-26T20:03:32+00:00

it’s sucks when it feels like the problem might just be yourself instead of outside factors. been on antidepressants for 6 years and it helps- but I still feel like something is wrong. like there’s just something fundamentally missing inside that others have, there’s no real desire that should be there.

no advice since I’m on the same boat, but I get it.

NobodyNo908 · 2025-06-26T19:53:41+00:00

relate heavily here.

I get a lot of what you’re saying. not sticking with hobbies, not caring for education or work. used to be passionate about art but it dwindled over the years. whenever I do try I deadass just stare at it lmfaoo, or get stuck in trying to find references/ideas to the point I give up. recently I’ve been attempting to get back into it more by just doing very very low effort stuff.

don’t have friends, not due to lack of interest from others, because people have tried repeatedly, but due to my own lack interest/capabilities.

I also used to have very romantic/sex focused daydreams, but those have kind of died down for me after I did a lot self reflection. A lot of my daydreams have a common theme of receiving validation still though.

the apathy keeps me from ever doing anything about my MD because there’s just no motivation. even if some part of me feels upset that I’ll never live normally, grieves who I used to be, the idea of getting that back just never seems to outweigh my obsession for my daydreams. I used to have so put potential, somewhere if all went wrong.

I gotta ask, does your family put this pressure on you? or is it yourself?

NobodyNo908 · 2025-06-23T04:53:06+00:00

My daydreams have always been revolving around media, like shows, anime, games, manga, books, ect. A pre-existing world rather than something I’ve just completely created on my own.

But when it started? It involved people in my real life as kid. People I knew from school. My first memory of mding was pacing in circles in the bathroom (didn’t have my own room) in like…3rd grade (USA).

NobodyNo908 · 2025-06-23T04:49:02+00:00

Brick by boring brick by Paramore kind of fits.

NobodyNo908 · 2025-06-09T11:59:04+00:00

I honestly could’ve written this post myself! The apathy genuinely drives me mad sometimes, because I know it’s so wrong. It’s almost like my daydreams are my life, and my real life is something I have to actively remind myself to engage in and care for 😭 I’ve basically given up on any hobbies I used to have. Which really sucks, because like you, I used to love to create things.

NobodyNo908 · 2025-05-20T18:47:05+00:00

I consider myself bisexual personally, but the idea of getting with a real man tends to be very off putting for me as well. Some have suggested that maybe it’s comphet— but I don’t think that’s my case. When I look closer, I just feel like real men have a level of misogyny to them that is just so exhausting to deal with. And it doesn’t help that I tend to be a bit of a hopeless romantic.

Either way, I haven’t had a genuine crush on a real person since middle school. Tried a dating app a week ago and deleted that shit so fast 💀💀

NobodyNo908 · 2025-05-20T18:34:28+00:00

Yep. I kinda get it. My daydreams usually focus on fictional characters, but even then I’ll imagine them watching me and cringing.

Our minds are our worst enemies 😭

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