How to come out of fictional life and imaginary characters?

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I can understand your concern.

I need to ask a few questions to clarify your problem. Is it affecting your life now? Can you control it? How many hours do you spend on it? Are you avoiding real-life people to live more with imaginary friends? Do you know whether these characters are 100 percent fictional or true?

How is your mood these days? Do you feel isolated, lonely, hurt, betrayed, or sad these days? Do you have any thoughts about not living in this world anymore?

Creating a beautiful, controlled imaginary life is a defense called fantasy. Defenses are made by our brain to live in a hypothetical world because the reality is so painful, and you feel betrayed, hurt, and lonely. This is common in those who feel they are misunderstood. It is a way of coping to get comfort, love, and warmth. Usually, this is not a psychiatric disorder until your life is affected by it.

Identify your problems and try to resolve them, talk to people, go out with friends, and try grounding techniques, such as when you feel you are going into a fictional world, name five things that you see, name four things that you hear, name three things that you touch, name two things that you taste. In this way, your brain will learn to stay in the present.

If you can provide answers to my questions, I will be able to help you more. If you have other questions, please feel free to ask.

I hope this information will help you.

Kindly follow up if you have more concerns.

Thank you.