If you are an escapist, probably because you don’t really like the job you are working in, or the course you are studying, so you probably have this desire to quite your job or or drop out school. However, everything is not that east, there could be many things in your life that you wish weren’t there. They could be finance problem, family relationship, and things which you don’t have control over.

There are many ways to release pressure (in some positive ways):

-Sport, gym

-Food (such as desserts can make people feel better)

-Traveling

-Reading (fiction like fantasy and sic-fi)

-Creating new things

(in some negative ways):

-Drag

-Be addicted to video games

-Become drunk and violent

Many people who has serious mental problem people are always treat them differently, but WHY?

Most of people could be an escapist in this society, they day dream a lot and escapist are people who want to create their own reality whilst they go about their daily routine.

Yayoi Kusama

Everyone have heard about her. She is a Japanese contemporary artist. She has explained her use of repetition and polka dots as a means to explore infinity and obessively  negate the self. She returned to Japan in the 1970s to live in a mental hospital.

She is very creative, and capable of making her own alternate.