i don’t know if this is the right place to put this in kinda new to reddit. i can go on for long periods of times and even hours pretending to talk to people who do not exist irl. i have been doing this for a while, i would say at least 6 months. these people will sometimes have different opinions or thoughts that differ from my own. i could get into arguments or talk to them for long periods of time. whenever i play xbox i will pretend to be some sort of twitch streamer without even realizing it. i will talk to my “viewers” about the game i’m playing and they will talk back. while doing it i know that these people are not real but at the same time i like to think they are real and will continue to talk to them. i also like to think i’m a big time rapper or big celebrity and i will make up these different situations and will talk to people as if i’m in an interview, i can do this for up to 30 minutes. i sometimes catch myself whispering out loud the things i say in these fake fantasy’s. the scariest thing to me is that i don’t even realize i’m talking to myself sometimes. i don’t know if this a serious problem that i should get looked at, if it’s some sort of coping mechanism due to some of the past events that have happened in my life, or if it’s normal. i’m tired of pushing it under the rug and pretending it’s a normal thing. any response will be helpful. thank you so much!