When you are unhappy, do your dolls cheer you up? (Emotionally dependent on them?)

Yes indeed All I have to do is look at them or a pic of them and I can smile again. Sometimes all it takes is to THINK of them, even

 

Arnold, who just arrived, certainly makes me feel all gooey when I look into his adorable face I will certainly use him as a teddy bear in the future.

 

I wouldn't say 'emotionally dependent', but I also wouldn't deny that Ilú is very, very good for me to have around. I'm currently living alone on the other side of the world to my family, and while I don't really have a great need for human company, I'm missing my pets very much. It's the first time in the last sixteen years or so that I've had to live without animal company of some kind, which was making me feel very off-balance when I first got here. So in a way... I suppose that while he's not a replacement for actual people, Ilú's a good pet-replacement? *waits for him to kill me for saying that* In that way, he cheers me up a lot and helps fill the gap that I was feeling before. I feel happy when I look at him, and thinking that I can see him as soon as I go home keeps me going through boring classes. When I'm at home he's always sitting with me, and petting his hair is almost like stroking my dog back in the UK.

 

I wouldn't say 'emotionally dependent' either, but I love having them around and hugging them, playing with them, or just looking at them and see how beautiful they are..and that little Chiwoo sleeping hand that always seems to get a hold of my finger and never lets it go always makes me smile ^_^ It's a good thing that these dolls make us happy, because otherwise..well, why would we have them? XD

 

Kinda am..*blush*..getting into Bjd's has helped me with bad depression that I've had almost my whole life.
With my brain on Bjds, I won't think of the bad things (I have bad thoughts of many diffrent things)
And when I do get down they can make me smile and everyone else's doll can as well.

While waiting for helios (that was last year) had helped me a lot, I had went threw 2 months of a bad mental breakdown, and thinking of what I can get him and such helped a lot and so did going on DoA.
They help keep me going in a way.

 

I don't have a very wide range of emotions frankly, so dependence isn't really accurate, though they do keep me content. I can be in the most terrible mood ever, and just picking one of them up and holding them eases my stress/sadness/frustration/whatever. They do a better job of it than real people, imho.

 

I got them mainly because I need them more than I want them. Both of the twins are reason why I still can keep my mind thinking straight and intact (most of the time). Them for making me feel that living through the day isn't so bad. Them for making me want to wake up to check that I didn't crash him in my sleep. Both of them are my little soulmates and their very presence make each of my day more enjoyable. Just holding on to their little hand will make me happy and comforting.

 

July doesn't exactly cheer me up and make everything go away (beacsue I still have to deal with stressing over my exams and such), but she really calms me down so that I can get the things I need done. n_n I do love her for always keeping me company when my boyfriend is doing his homework. I hate watching movies alone.

 

I have a childish fear sometimes of ghosts/poltergists/whatever, being abducted by aliens =_=;;; and other stupid things that often really get to me if I watch horror shows on them or whatever and I use to have alot of trouble getting to sleep, but I sleep with Aubrey next to me or in my arms when I get like that and I calm down. =) I don't know why, but he's comforting.

 

I wouldn't say emotionally dependant, but just lazarus's head inspires squeals when I'm down. ^_^

 

I wouldn't say I'm emotionally dependent on them, but when theres no one else to cheer you up, there they are smiling at you, and it just makes me want to smile back at them! and cuddle them!

 

It depends how bad my depression is at the time. if it's bad, no, they don't help, nothing helps.

 

Mine can definetly help to make me feel better. If I'm a little sad sometimes I'll just go in and sit next to them for awhile. They are so beautiful, and I love them so. I enjoy thinking of the next pictures I'll take or story I'll write. It makes work go faster! If I'm really sad, I guess being near them won't really make me happy again, but it does help. I definetly feel more..connected, I guess...to these dolls than any I've had before.

 

Definitely. It's why I finally decided to buy my dolls, after years of waiting and telling myself that they were too expensive, actually. I got diagnosed with a chronic illness last autumn, and adjusting to that was (and is) a difficult, emotionally draining process.

When I saw Dahlia on Ebay, I immediately knew that I wanted her, but as usual, I told myself that I couldn't justify buying her - but then I reconsidered and decided that now was the perfect time to get something that I'd been wanting for a long time and that I would likely cherish for years to come. So I got Dahlia, and when I won her for half of what I'd expected to pay, I got Dawn, too.

And while I sometimes think about transfering Dahlia's character to a different shell, I don't regret getting the two of them. When I'm down, I just like to look at them and take pics of them and get all excited and disbelieving that they're really here. Somehow, it's comforting to have them here - they are so beautiful, and not connected to the difficult things in my life. Well, in Dawn's case that's not entirely true... She mirrors one of my restrictions (she can't stand or walk very well), but I've made her character carefree and happy despite that. Yeah, wishful thinking, but it cheers me up.

And to be completely honest, when I'm down, I sometimes sleep with Dawn on an extra pillow in my bed, and that cheers me up, as well.

 

not gonna say I am emotionaly dependent on my doll, BUT....I can tell you this, I would have a hard day at work and I come home to look at Luka, with a look on his face as if he is very very glad to see me, and I love that...just to have that feeling, or when my roomates are being brats about things, I'll have him laying next to me on the bed and I'll just pick him up and hold him...making me feel a sense of wellness

 

I do love my dolls to death, and when I'm around them, they do make me happy... but it's because I love them and I enjoy being with them. Being with my friends does the same thing for me, or working with my art or kimono. I wouldn't say I'm "emotionally dependant" however, because I don't depend on the dolls to make me happy. They are, and please don't anybody jump on me for saying this, inanimate objects... and there is the risk of them getting messed up, etc etc... if I were to let myself get dependant on their being there to be happy... well, when I go somewhere else, and I don't take them, or something were to happen, I'd be in pretty sorry shape.

Anyway, that's my 2cents : )

 

When I'm stressed or upset, I've found that spending time with my dolls changing wigs and clothes, etc can make me feel better. The activity is calming and I can just shut off my brain for a while.

 

I'm not "emotionally dependant" on my dolls (I think that was a bad choice of wording for your subject line by the way, as evidently do others - you might want to edit it to leave out that bit), but they do bring me comfort. They don't take away the crappy things that got me upset in the first place; but they're always there for me, unjudging, accepting of me no matter what, and involving myself in their little fantasy world distracts me from all the RL crap that drags me down.

Even just sitting and hugging one for a while, stroking their hair and talking quietly to them in a one-sided conversation about what's bothering me helps. It's not a substitute for talking to a real live person; but sometimes I don't want to bother my BF with the stuff I'm upset over (especially if it's just something silly and trivial that got all out of proportion in my own head), and just simply having the dolls to confide it to helps me get it out of my system and move on.

It's not emotional dependance; it is therapeutic.

 

But of course! Just the other day I was having some emotional problems, and my friend suggested I "talk" to Lucciola about it. And when I did, I felt a lot better. :3

 

Yes, they do.

So does reading manga, playing qwirks, surfing the net, taking piccies with my handphone, taking piccies with digicam, sms-ing on my handphone, making things, drawing decapitations of people I hate, DDR, watching FFVII:AC, rewinding FFVII:AC and watching Yazoo, rewinding FFVII:AC and watching Yazoo again, ranting on my LJ, eating lots of chocolate, eating cheesecake, drinking coffee.... Eesh, I think I'm emotionally dependent on a lot of material stuf ^_^;;;

Beautiful weather makes me happy too... Come to think of it, Sundays make me happy too...