Anyone else just live in fantasy land now

[Lelophants]

Honestly this is how I feel. I find being with a toddler all day dire (as horrible as this sounds). I lack decent mental stimulation and there are no decent groups near me and I have no proper mum friends. Seeing friends in general rarely happens anymore with covid and none of us being that local to each other.

The highlight of my day is binging whatever netflix series I'm on and I do it constantly until I'm done whenever I get a spare moment, then move onto something else. That's what I will be thinking about all day, popping into my mind when I'm with family, anyone and sometimes even stops me sleeping.

I know this sounds awful, but I've also never heard of this before! Does anyone else have this problem? I'm not even sure how to explain it.

It makes me worried as with covid I don't even know when it will change :(

Yes I am like this at the moment, either watching or going off in my head dreaming about stuff

I think it’s a lack of proper conversation?

@UsedToBeSeventeen

Yes I am like this at the moment, either watching or going off in my head dreaming about stuff

I think it’s a lack of proper conversation?

This is so depressing but I think you're right. It sounds awful but I don't even know what I'd rather be doing atm. I've just stopped caring really.

I have been doing this too
I had to take the apps off my phone
Wasn’t getting anything done

To a certain extent yes. I'll watch lots of programmes based abroad and imagine I'm on holiday / living there and it's probably as I want to travel but can't. I think its boredom with the same surroundings for too long.

Yep it seems to be a product of covid restrictions. I read an interesting article in the NY Times about languishing. I think I agree it's how a lot of people are feeling. Everything is just a bit meh and it's very easy to escape into any kind of fantasy.

I was like this with reading over lockdown, I discovered Jenny Colgan and devoured everything she had written...didn't want to do anything but read. It was a phase and it passed, I still read but not obsessively so.

I’ve done this all lockdown started with Normal People then Bridgerton now it’s Downton Abbey . My own life is just so blah and full of demanding people and things that just sitting down watching people with nice houses and nice clothes helps me escape it for a bit .

@Plinkplonk1234

Yep it seems to be a product of covid restrictions. I read an interesting article in the NY Times about languishing. I think I agree it's how a lot of people are feeling. Everything is just a bit meh and it's very easy to escape into any kind of fantasy.

Do you have a link to the article?

I feel like my mental health is completely screwed. I literally feel angry if anyone disrupts me from them.

Here it is- <a class="break-all" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html#click=t.co/PFnazkvaGv" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html#click=t.co/PFnazkvaGv