call it maladaptive.
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- It interferes with daily life by
- preventing you from doing things you need to do.
- being uncontrollable.
- preventing you from paying attention.
- making you forget.
- You're having conversations with _______ and forming connections with them.
- fictional people
- strangers
- celebrities
- people you know
- You've been talking to them since you woke up.
- They've encouraged you to get things done.
- You're laughing at imaginary conversations.
- You respond to them aloud.
- You're still in bed.
- Were these conversations real?
- They interfere with your memories.
- You can't remember what has and hasn't happened.
- You ask someone if they remember when something happened; it never happened, and both of you are confused.
- You're closer to someone in your head than you are with someone in reality.
- Why talk to real people?
- They don't hold up to the ones in your head.
- You can imagine better people.
- You can imagine better conversations.
- You can imagine a better life.
- You stand in front of them and
- imagine conversations with them.
- replay imaginary conversations.
- do not open your mouth.
- scream.
- It's constant, and
- you don't want to turn it off.
- you can't imagine life without it.
- you need it to avoid your thoughts.
- you can't cope with reality.
- You spend hours imagining;
- are you even aware it's a problem?
- it's getting to be a problem.
- you know full well it's a problem.
- you still deny it's a problem.