IMkrystal
09-29-2012, 10:43 PM
This past Monday during my therapy session the therapist used the term “escaping from reality” after I told him that during the past weekend because of my depression, I just lie in bed and watch TV all day and night. As I was leaving the session I poised this question to myself “Is escaping from reality the reason for my crossdressing?”
On Thursday I met with my psychiatrist and mentioned to her my infatuation with this phrase (I have told my therapist about crossdressing but not my psychiatrist) She said “people escape from reality all the time I.e. watching a movie or reading a book, because it alleviates stresses we face in the real world, but lying in bed watching TV all day is not the best way to escape. You need to get out and do things and just try to talk to people.”
Today went out lunch, did some shopping, called inquiring about a new car, talked with my mother, washed dishes, and picked up around my apt. I also went on line and Google “escaping from reality” and found songs, books, and forums dealing with this topic.
Returning to my original question “Is escaping from reality the reason for my crossdressing?” My answer would be yes. Right now I am escaping by writing about it. I feel the Crossdresser forum serve as a way for many of use to escape by reading about individuals like ourselves, sharing their problems, questions, advice, and comments which the real world has no connection with. Over the forty plus years I have identified with crossdressing, the excitements and urges have waned. In its placed the realization of loneliness has set in because of the crossdresser label I have given myself. I wish more people, especially women, could understand this, but that is not reality.:daydreaming:
On Thursday I met with my psychiatrist and mentioned to her my infatuation with this phrase (I have told my therapist about crossdressing but not my psychiatrist) She said “people escape from reality all the time I.e. watching a movie or reading a book, because it alleviates stresses we face in the real world, but lying in bed watching TV all day is not the best way to escape. You need to get out and do things and just try to talk to people.”
Today went out lunch, did some shopping, called inquiring about a new car, talked with my mother, washed dishes, and picked up around my apt. I also went on line and Google “escaping from reality” and found songs, books, and forums dealing with this topic.
Returning to my original question “Is escaping from reality the reason for my crossdressing?” My answer would be yes. Right now I am escaping by writing about it. I feel the Crossdresser forum serve as a way for many of use to escape by reading about individuals like ourselves, sharing their problems, questions, advice, and comments which the real world has no connection with. Over the forty plus years I have identified with crossdressing, the excitements and urges have waned. In its placed the realization of loneliness has set in because of the crossdresser label I have given myself. I wish more people, especially women, could understand this, but that is not reality.:daydreaming: