How do I cope? I love her, she is the best person I could come across and we get along great unless when she:
> is forced to socialize or spend time with someone, the stress makes her self-destructive
> gets swept off by one of those weird magical waves

She's currently having one of those ideas that are like sunspots on her brain and won't go away for days/weeks/months. I can see she has some purpose, but her purpose now is to:
>lurk /x/ and all esoteric knowledge on the internet about other beings
>do meditations and techniques a few hours a day to learn to astral project
>wants to meet and summon other beings into her life
>can't focus much on other things irl without these ideas coloring them or bringing them up somehow
>wants me to join too

She's not psychotic, she can be reasoned with, she showers and is fairly functional otherwise but won't let go of these ideas. Advice?

>>33300787 (OP)
Her parents probably didn’t bother providing structure or meaning behind her life. So, in the absence of meaning or purpose, she had to make one up from the depths of rumination and maladaptive daydreaming. This is the result.

Thing about meaning and purpose is, we never find it. It finds us. What she needs is reality to break down her mental barriers so that she can see the stark difference between her thoughts (what she thinks is reality) Vs. Greater reality (whats actually real).

The best way to make this happen OP is through her body. Start taking her to places that require physicality. A hike, a trek, a marathon, climb a hill, anything that involves the body.

Because whatever the mind may think is true in its fantasies is BTFO’d by the body. The body knows reality. The mind doesn't. She may think she can manifest energy to do impossible things. Her body tells her very quickly she is wrong.

She needs more of that.

>>33300822
Thanks for your thoughtful reply
>rumination and maladaptive daydreaming
You put your finger on it, she is very absent minded and daydreams a lot in general. Sometimes, some dream/idea clicks and sticks with her a long time

>Start taking her to places that require physicality
I think she somehow integrated that into her fantasies? She is an active person generally (moves a lot, goes to the gym etc) and I'd say imaginative in a childish kind of way - she likes using her body even prefers physical and interesting chores (carrying something or operating a machine, over boring stuff like cooking or dusting a room). She'll joke that it's like an adventure or physical training for whatever otherworldly experiences she's preparing for. I'm guilty of enjoying that sometimes - last time she helped with cutting down a tree and chopping the wood and whatever she imagined she was doing, she enjoyed it.

I don't know if she actually expects something magical to happen in her life, she isn't telling me. But she's keeping her mind so open it often falls out of it lol

>Her parents probably didn’t bother providing structure or meaning behind her life. So, in the absence of meaning or purpose, she had to make one up
I think this might be the case for a lot of people in today's modern times. Not sure it's inherently wrong to make up a purpose for yourself if it keeps you going. I'm just concerned she resorts to magical purposes, incompatible with this world, and that she might get the really wrong idea one day that she'll act on.

A long time ago while a bit drunk she confessed to me she doesn't fear death but more as a doorway into another world of mystery and that she's looking forward to it. That's when I got the creeps a bit, even though she's not suicidal in particular

>>33300787 (OP)
Shes mentally retarded

>>33300882
>She is an active person generally (moves a lot, goes to the gym etc) and I'd say imaginative in a childish kind of way - she likes using her body even prefers physical and interesting chores (carrying something or operating a machine, over boring stuff like cooking or dusting a room).

That's good she enjoys it. She enjoys it because like I said, the body keeps the mind right. Yes she will attach fantasies or weird meanings to it, that's her habit. Habits are hard to break. But she enjoys it because deep down she enjoys the clarity it brings, because after all, that's why she desperately and habitually invents weird stories in her head, it's for the search for truth, for reality. She will enjoy having her ideas crushed by reality because it brings her back to solid ground.

What I mean by physicality is she needs to finally meet her limits. When I say she needs reality to break her mental barriers, she needs failure. Pushing her body so hard she breaks down or gets exhausted. That kinda ass kicking. Not a brutal or damaging one but just enough for her to learn her own limits. When she learns her bodies absolute upper limits, her mind will follow.

The body is a reflection of the mind after all. Or vice versa. Point is, when her body tells her what her own limits are, her fantasies will start to become limited. More and more they will diminish. It will take time though. It's a process.

Doesn't have to be purely physical work. Even new social situations too, new experiences that force stimuli into her.

>she confessed to me she doesn't fear death but more as a doorway into another world of mystery

Yeah that's a nice thing for her to say. Sorry for agreeing with her but I find that attitude to be noble. Admirable.

But, it shows she perhaps hasn't stared death in the face yet. She ain't experienced it close up. I used to share her enthusiasm for afterlife. Then I watched my mom die slowly and prematurely at a hospital. Gave me a reality check.

>>33300787 (OP)
>She's currently having one of those ideas that are like sunspots on her brain and won't go away for days/weeks/months. I can see she has some purpose, but her purpose now is to:
>>lurk /x/ and all esoteric knowledge on the internet about other beings
>>do meditations and techniques a few hours a day to learn to astral project
>>wants to meet and summon other beings into her life
>>can't focus much on other things irl without these ideas coloring them or bringing them up somehow
>>wants me to join too
>She's not psychotic, she can be reasoned with, she showers and is fairly functional otherwise but won't let go of these ideas. Advice?
Oh, I knew a girl like that. She would have obsessions for a week, such as the need to move inland because planet 9 was going to cause massive tsunamis. Very volatile and saying the "wrong" thing would have her raging at me. After a few such episodes I decided it wasn't worth it.

>>33301042
>What I mean by physicality is she needs to finally meet her limits. When I say she needs reality to break her mental barriers, she needs failure. Pushing her body so hard she breaks down or gets exhausted. That kinda ass kicking. Not a brutal or damaging one but just enough for her to learn her own limits. When she learns her bodies absolute upper limits, her mind will follow.
She used to enjoy pushing her body to the limit in the gym and would get the occasional injury that kept her out of the gym for a few days. But interesting take, including:
>Even new social situations too, new experiences that force stimuli into her.
that will be the hardest because she goes into stress mode when forced to socialize and starts getting paranoid, depressed, etc. It's like being around people and having to deal with them is the bane of her existence.

>But, it shows she perhaps hasn't stared death in the face yet. She ain't experienced it close up. I used to share her enthusiasm for afterlife. Then I watched my mom die slowly and prematurely at a hospital. Gave me a reality check.
Sorry to hear about your mom. Half of her family also died. Beyond the grief and the loss that only time can heal, she told me she kind of feels closer to them in death because now they are free and in their pure, light spirit form and can see, understand and love her like they never could in life. I think I might have to make her watch some gore liveleaks or something so she can stop romanticizing death, but I don't want to traumatize her.

>Very volatile and saying the "wrong" thing would have her raging at me.
Lucky mine isn't volatile like that. Idk she kinda keeps her fantasies private maybe she expects others not to agree and she doesn't want to fight about it

>>33300787 (OP)
Imagine a succubus threesome with your gf.

>>33300787 (OP)
What makes her schizotypal?

>>33304271
hot

>>33300787 (OP)
>schizotypal
No, she's not.
She's being a bitch and blame it on hormones/mental illness.
This is the lack of good parent figure in her childhood.

>>33306861
How is OP's gf being a bitch in particular? She sounds weird and hyperfocused on some fantasies, but not bitchy in the standard way a BPD bitch might be

>>33300787 (OP)
She is literally me except I'm a 28 year old reclusive fat man