Hi, my name is Elaine, I just started posting today, and just read a suggestion that made me think of one of my own.

An older user suggested basically that there should be a commonly accepted age limit to daydreaming, which would be 25. I see the logic, but I think ultimately this user just picked that number arbitrarily for the year he thought that he could've/should've turned his life around.

He was last active in 2021, and who knows if he'll ever visit…

I mean why not.

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Hello,

Our names are Elise van Hoevelaak and Karen van Leeuwen. We're 17 years old and from The Netherlands. I (Karen) have been experiencing Maladaptive Daydreams since I was about 14 years old.

Currently, we are working on a school project about Maladaptive Daydreaming. While we were doing our research, we stumbled across this network. We were wondering if you are willing to fill out this survey (anonymously) to help us with our project. …

Hi, I am new here. I’ ve been doing MD since I was…I think…12 years old. I didn’t know that something like MD even existed, before I’ ve found this page. As I am learning more and more about me and things that MD supresses, everything seems to make more sence. I’ll appreciate every help I can get here. I am still not fully recovered, yet I now know, that going back is not the right way (despite it being so easy to return to my old habits). I am open to everyone, who would like to talk in…

Well, it's been a good while. Years, to be precise, though you wouldn't know it to look at me.

It's so utterly soul-crushing, and yet so fascinating, to watch time pass and the details change while the foundations of one's life remain exactly the same. I've heard it said that "history never repeats, but it often rhymes", and I couldn't agree more.

Please forgive the vagueness, I know I'm going to sound overly cryptic. I'm just thinking out loud. Something has happened to me…

Hi everyone. This is new to me... talking to people about my mental habits and what not. I recently saw a study about overactive imagination. After reading about it and watching videos/lectures on it I realized that I have the habits and traits of it. After doing further study I heard about <maladaptive Daydreaming. This is my exprience with it

I have a fantasy world and when I'm bored, stressed or overstimulated I got there. I have had it for like 10 years. The fantasy…

I'm a 17 year old, who's just finished schooling. My final examinations got over last month and I'm currently preparing for the competitive exams, more like trying to prepare for them. I haven't been able to study properly for the past one year and I still can't focus. I'd taken therapy last year to treat a mental health issue but just as the therapy got over, I fell into this trap of MD. And I haven't told anyone about this because I have a very strong feeling that nobody will understand.…

Hi there,  I would be grateful if you could help me with my research project :), many thanks Gill

You are invited to take part in an important study looking at the individual differences in people who self-identify as a Maladaptive Daydreamer. You will be required to complete an online questionnaire which should take no longer than 25 minutes.

Please click this link to take part in the study…

For the first 5 1/2 months of this year, I had stayed in a behavioral facility (not for MD, though I don't want to share the personal details of the reasons why I was there). I just got back home last week. While I was there, I was forced to share an entire living space with several other girls. Think of military barracks. There was one room with bunk beds lining the entirety of one wall. We were supervised constantly. About 17 weeks into the program, a few of us (ones with the best…

So I'm really just here for some support and understanding. Having MD is such an isolating thing on its own but combine that with the fact that nobody understands what I'm going through when I try to explain it to them, makes it even worse.

But basically Maladaptive Daydreaming became a problem for me 10 years ago, and it took everything from me. My confidence, work ethic, personality, social skills, till I got to the point where no one wanted to be around me because I was a…

Hello! 

I found this network about 2 years ago now. And instantly I felt like I had this. Though I not one to self diagnose so after a lot of research I decided I wanted to talk to a professional about this.  I was and still am extremely embarrassed of this but after about 6 months of having told someone I think others may be able to benefit as I have after speaking to a phycologist and having had therapy done. 

1. MD is a form of dissociation. It allows you to disconnect…

• Hi kalliope I am new here. I mistakenly deleted your comment. Sorry for that. But your comment made me feel there's someone in this world that cares about my daydream disorders. TYSM for that. Well i ve tried many things but what helps the most is meditations. I recommed you to try it. Practice yoga meditation & physical exercise everyday. It will help a lot. & What about u. What u daydream about and what have u tried.