Maladaptive Daydreaming: where wild minds come to rest
I am better then I was. I changed my diet. Gave up sugar and high carb foods. Added in good fats, coconut oil, olive oil, butter. My mind works better now. Less anxiety and depression. I am better able to stop the dreams.
Added by greyartist on September 20, 2017 at 11:54am — 2 Comments
I'm so glad I found this site. Just like so many here, I was completely aware that others did this until recently. MDD is not well known by any means. I would love to share my story for anyone who is curious.
I'm not the type of person you would likely expect to have a disorder like this. …
ContinueAdded by Vendela Collins on June 28, 2016 at 8:59pm — 8 Comments
I seem to be sleepy all the time. I just want to lay down. It is the only time my brain shuts up. Sleep. A rest from the mental clutter I’ve had lately. Like an introvert in a crowd of talking people. My mind gets so noisy I just want to scream “shut up!” How to find a quiet place.
Added by greyartist on July 5, 2015 at 3:56pm — 2 Comments
The line between reality and something else. I can tell when my illness is getting worse. Maladaptive Daydreaming Disorder is an illness, not an excuse to waste your life fantasizing about what you will never have the will to try. But to me it is most diffidently an illness. Does the depression come from the worsening MDD or does it cause the depression? I don’t know. But when you walk outside and the…
ContinueAdded by greyartist on August 22, 2014 at 4:26am — 6 Comments
I've always wondered why I daydream so much. I've been daydreaming ever since I was about seven I think. There hasn't been any horrible trauma or any huge event in my life at that time that has caused be to become addicted to daydreaming. I wonder if maybe there is something in my genetics that makes me do this. It isn't a mechanism to deal with boredom or past trauma, my life is busy and I have things to do. I love the way I live except my chronic depression and maladaptive daydreaming are…
ContinueAdded by K.M.R. on July 12, 2014 at 10:50am — 2 Comments
For those of you who do not know, I am fifteen. I'm a Freshman in high school (9th grade). The year is ending soon, and my Science teacher was nice enough to create an incredibly easy project for his students instead of making us take a final. Technically, it's against the rules, but he's retiring after this year, so he can't get in trouble. Anyway, he gave us a project as a final. The project required us to make a PowerPoint pretending we are in our 60's, in the year 2064, and to…
ContinueAdded by Rachel on May 23, 2014 at 3:00pm — 5 Comments
I swear inside these walls it gets so hard. My relationship with my family is at its worse. Once I was really close to my mother, now its like we can barely stand each other anymore. We are both to blame, some of it is because of my MDD. Even though I try it is half-hearted and…
ContinueAdded by 4everlost23 on April 24, 2014 at 6:30pm — 4 Comments
My latest attempt at a cure or treatment is mind control. Heard a man talking about it on the radio show Coast to Coast AM. I ordered one of the programs called Serenity. It has shadowed subliminal messages or affirmations in with oceans sounds. You can choose nature sounds or music. The sound of waves is soothing to me anyway. The company is called InnerTalk, I liked them because they provide a list of all the messages in the recording, so you don't wonder what they are really telling you…
ContinueAdded by greyartist on April 16, 2014 at 4:18pm — 2 Comments
Hello ^_^ This is my first post here , so forgive by now any possible mistakes I may make.
So. . . I dont really know what to say...(This looked better when i daydreamed it ._. )
Uh..
Well...
Currently there are a lot of bad things going on in my life: fights at home , bad grades , heartbroken , losing dear ones , etc.
So because of all of this suffering and pain I think I might have got depression as well. It's been going on for months…
ContinueAdded by Anne on February 19, 2014 at 7:30am — 4 Comments
My friend wrote this, he is a minister who suffers from depression.
http://para-klesis.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-hell-of-melacholy-explained-020114.html
Added by greyartist on February 1, 2014 at 4:28am — 1 Comment
The Depressed Cake Shop Experiment
The title links to a Google search of an experiment undertaken by a bakery in to raise awareness about depression. It soon spread to bake shops in the UK, Malaysia and even to one bakeshop in Bangalore. It aims to raise the taboo and silence…
ContinueAdded by S K on January 17, 2014 at 8:08am — 2 Comments
So, there is a name for this “thing” that I do “Maladaptive Daydreaming” I am wondering if it is a new “diagnoses” as I remember researching it in the past and not being able to find anything. I have even spoke to Drs and Physiatrists about it before and they have not really know what to say or do about it and defiantly not put a name to it or said it is something that lots of people seem to do. How do I feel about it having a semi- official title? Positive and negative I suppose, Positive…
ContinueAdded by gareth oliver on November 5, 2013 at 6:45am — 1 Comment
Hey everyone, it's been a while hasn't it. Haha.... I think the last time I updated anything was about four months ago.
Well, I've gotten back into the routine of high school, mountains of homework, stressed about test, giving presentations and playing in the band. Sadly my circle of friends has dwindled a bit but one missing piece was filled by a special someone. I didn't think after sophomore year I would ever get back into the dating game but I guess that's how life sneaks up on…
ContinueI have become so indecisive and insecure. I can’t decide where to go , whether to go, when to go, what to order, what TV program to watch, what bag to carry, where to go 1st if I go to get food. I am totally confused. I am also the hardest on myself. Almost demeaning myself when there is no one else to do it. Scolding myself for being indecisive, for being fat, for taking the wrong decisions, for being…
ContinueAdded by S K on October 21, 2013 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments
http://maladaptivedaydreaming.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/sorry/
I’m sorry I haven’t posted or done a radio show, or youtube video for weeks. I am not functioning well right now. I’m in one of those phases where I am so desperate for an answer, for help, for escape from this curse in my mind. That I get depressed and hopeless. Unable to do little more then put one foot in front of the other…
ContinueAdded by greyartist on August 23, 2013 at 6:32pm — 2 Comments
Hyper-empathetic people feel what they see happen to others. This may explain my negative daydreams. I have noticed if I look at the story line or theme of them, I can usually go back to a news story or book or something invovling the mistreatment of women that lines up with it. I try to avoid these news stories but they are everywhere. People post photos of battered women on facebook, stories in national geo about forced marriages, rapes, women losing rights all over the world.…
ContinueAdded by greyartist on April 15, 2013 at 5:47am — 4 Comments
I am from India , suffering from MD from around 5 years, In the beginning i never thought that such thing like MD exists... I just thought its normal to self talk or think deeply... I used to think that i am a deep thinker so i think endlessly or some times talk endlessly... but later on it started increasing so much that it affected my life very very badly... it used to consume all my time and i did nothing except day dreaming... I used to get late to college and every day i was…
ContinueAdded by Lee Young Ae on February 4, 2013 at 7:59am — 12 Comments
I know a lot of people on here hate their MD and want to stop DDing, but that isn't something that I'll ever want (not that there is anything wrong with not wanting it). I just feel like I must missing something because I can't want to live in this world like they do. I just don't really feel like this world is worth it. I can't be happy in this world like I can in mine. I can't feel real in this world or present. I can't be happy with other people because I can't connect with them. I feel…
ContinueAdded by littleschrodinger'scat on January 5, 2013 at 6:49pm — 2 Comments
When I was in 8th grade, I had a dream that I wanted to write a book about an adventure that really happened to me. I wanted to awe people and make them say "Wow! This was real? I thought it was fiction!" So in order to do that, I chose people from the real world (my classmates) and started to plan my story and how it would go. I truly believed it was going to somehow come true. I dreamed of my buddies (my classmates who I never even talked to) and I were going to join up as a group when I…
ContinueAdded by LeAnn Marcum on January 2, 2013 at 8:55am — No Comments
No matter how much I talk with someone or am around someone, it feels like there is some sort of invisible wall between us. It feels like I am far away and only vaguely aware. I can’t make friends. I can’t feel what I want to feel for another person. I just have a disconnect with everyone I interact with; whether they be in real life or on the internet. I feel bad because I want to feel something for someone else but I can’t. I want those…
ContinueAdded by littleschrodinger'scat on December 18, 2012 at 5:23pm — 7 Comments
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