Dollieh Sanctuary

Do you get emotional support from your dolls? I do.

Looking at them, making things for them, taking pictures of them, all these things put me at ease. When my anxiety was at it's worst, I'd take my dolls everywhere. Playing with dolls helped me through the Hell year that was 2020, and I'm sure they'll help me through this year too.

I've got dolls that were created just for emotional support. I've got sensory issues, and sometimes I need someone to help me feel anchored so I can focus. Since I rarely have a human around, I've learned to use a doll for an anchor. And yeah, they often get carried round in public, though I usually just carry a little one that most people won't notice.

I also make dolls for emotional support for others. Or I did before I kind of locked down this past year. But I gave some bought dolls to my psychologist for her to use to help her other patients. She says it works.

A lot of my dolls feel like emotional support dolls. A lot of them are custom characters that I created over ten years ago, and they feel almost like real people or friends.

Hazel is definitely my emotional support doll. Besides being the doll I had imagined having since I was very small, she debuted just when I first began to be seriously disabled. I saw her on Junkyspot and managed to buy her head and a body separately. Hazel could do all the things I couldn’t anymore. She still does. I do have a wonderful and very supportive husband, and amazing friends too, but Hazel is special.

My dolls probably double as that. Prior to dolls I seem to be buying action figures just because new versions were released.

After Obi-Chun showed up, I got back into attempting to sew or make stuff, took up photography after taking an interest in taking said doll outdoors whenever there are festive events or lovely parks and interesting spots. I just like working on them and bringing out ideas that were in my head on account of years of various media. They kinda make me learn to appreciate stuff.

Definitely, my need for a pocket doll developed after reading Soul Mate Dolls : Dollmaking as Healing Art.

I think it's a little of that and lots of other things as well. They look enough like people to give me something to feel connected, but the disappointment from actual people simply doesn't exist. I like them because it gives me something to feel more connected to nice and good things. The world they occupy is simply better, cleaner and more wholesome than real life.

zirconmermaid wrote:Hazel is definitely my emotional support doll.

Hazel provides support of a lot of us.

well,if nothing else, i've always got my Anime Family here
to depend on to help brighten up the day a little;

Hazel is the best bjd. It's good to know that there are people who do this.

I love the bjd's.