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What ho! I know this is a bit random, but my mother just bought a pair of purple heliotrope pyjamas, and I wanted to share my fangirl squee. I actually did ask her whether she bought them because of Bertie. Sadly, the answer was no.

Does anyone else have Jeeves and Wooster related items? Cow creamers, Alpine hats, spats in the old Etonian colours? :p Or is it just me? xx

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closetofheroes.livejournal.com

How about playing air piano when everyone else has gone to bed? :) It doesn't get much worse than that, though.

I appreciate your comment. I have trouble with depression and anxiety (hence the shrink) and when things were at their worst in the past I buried myself in my fantasy so much that I really did lose sense of who I was. I mean, I knew my name and everything, but... you know. It was unhealthy, and it prevented me from actually getting out of the depression.

My real life happened to get more dramatic, fortunately (I started uni, etc) and that was the beginning of getting my perspective back and getting sort of better. But I think that's why I now associate fantasy with mental illness, and have a sense of shame about it.

Except here in this forum, of course, where I dump all the boring details of my psyche on everyone! Sorry... I actually don't find myself nearly as interesting as I'm making out. Self-indulgent blathering over.

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If you're delving into fantasy due to depression it's still a common enough occurrence. It's natural to want to keep one's mind idle with things other than their problems in life. Some people do it through denial, some people do it through drinking or drugs, and some people create an internal alternative (Say that three times fast. I thought not.) to their problems by creating a fantasy life. Wihtin that there's roleplaying, in closest association to what you do, where you envision a character, celebrity etc. in your head and carry out routines he/she/they would carry out, make decisions as they would, et al. Others within that catagory might just make it up, creating characters, settings, scenarios etc. (Obviously, why you hear of so many artists, writers, actors etc in particular struggling with depression. They often have a more vivid imagination because it is their recluse, their safe spot. So some good can come out of it.) Then again, it can also destroy you if you can't find your way out.
I would encourage you, if you have not already, to see "They Might Be Giants". Interesting film about this sort of thing. Because it really does happen all the time.

I wouldn't call it self-indulgent blathering. It's wonderful that you have an outlet for some of this, to an extent. If anything, I'm the self-indulgent one here.
On another note, no, this isn't boring. At least not to me. I'm a bartender, and one would be surprised at some of the things I've heard and-I hope-helped with.
(I really really hope my carrying out this conversation isn't annoying you or making you uncomfortable. But sometimes you don't know who you're helping. Feel free to say STFU at any time.)

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ellex42.livejournal.com

I can't tell you how thrilled I am to find someone else who has seen the film "They Might Be Giants". It really is a fascinating little picture, and shows how one person's fantasy can be so all-encompassing that other people are drawn into it - even when they know it isn't real.

On the subject of role-playing: it can be very helpful. When going into a situation that makes me nervous, I find it useful to pretend I'm someone else - although not to the point where it's obvious to other people that I'm not being me! It's more like I pretend to be an actor playing myself, and that puts my apprehension at a distance. Kind of like the old saw about visualizing other people naked or in their underwear...