AES89 About Escapism
Everyone has their coping mechanism, one of my ways to cope is escapism. I think that is one of the reasons why I love reading books, watching films/series, listening to podcasts, and all that fun stuff. It is because sometimes I just need to escape the life im living now because it’s just way too exhausting. I have done some research and I learned that escapism is a healthy coping mechanism if it’s still at a normal level. If you can’t control escapism, it could turn into delusion.
I have to admit that at one point in my life I have been delusional. I think it was because of the pandemic, feeling so lonely I needed something to give me comfort. But it got out of control and I couldn’t focus on things in my real life, all I wanted to do was pick up a fantasy book and think about a life I would live in that world.
Sometimes it makes me really sad that I find my life boring and even exhausting, I can’t even find comfort in my real life. It is almost that I don’t feel expected or even needed in my real life. What helped me to overcome that delusional phase was I learned to mix my real life and my comfort world. So let’s say Im watching a Netflix series, other than using it in a way that says “I wish I had their life” I try to see it in another pov. I try to learn how to take massages from the series to apply them to my day-to-day life.
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