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Contrary to your experience, the article suggests that aphantasia could be correlated with less mental health issues. Doesn't seem impossible to me, but they don't offer anything to back that claim.

As an aphantasic, I tend to escape to entirely fantastical settings and situations when asked to go to my happy place. I don't see them, but I kind of tell myself stories, with elaborate descriptions of landscapes and situations.

My imagination is maybe all symbolic, but it hasn't felt like a disorder, more like a super power: imagining things, I'm not constrained so directly by my life experiences.