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nova-rogue · 1 month ago

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Not All Escapism Is Good For You, Actually

if it takes over your every waking moment and you slip deeper into constant depression, you probably have some adjustments to your real life you need to look at making, rather than diving deeper into denial using escapism.

i say this out of love and concern.

probably important for people to start to learn when their escapism is actually detrimental to their mental/emotional health rather than a useful and healthy coping mechanism. people are really bad at this.

#roguish archetype.txt #saw a post on r*ddit and i'm still thinking abt it. a woman claiming she feels like she can't read fantasy anymore bc it makes her sad #that her life isn't full of magic and unique world building and fantasy scenarios and the comments #thank god were full of people telling her that she actually probably needs therapy.#she kept reading more and more but #she was like 'it's so bad it makes me sadder every time i read a good book' & it's like. that means you're ignoring your real life actually #if your real life feels so aggressively wrong that media is your only solace... you need to make some changes #do it for the sake of your own wellbeing. don't accept mediocrity or even something worse than it.

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