All Discussions Tagged '#MD' - Wild Minds network2024-03-28T22:57:43Zhttps://wildminds.ning.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=%23MD&feed=yes&xn_auth=noReal Memories Masterpost!!tag:wildminds.ning.com,2021-05-16:4661400:Topic:4132562021-05-16T16:43:46.145ZRuthiehttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Ruthie
<p>When I'm low I cheer myself up with fake scenarios in my head, often without being conscious of doing it.</p>
<p>Maybe I dream of people paying attention to me, listening to me, being affectionate, or going on an adventure with my favourite characters. </p>
<p>Yet I find having MD makes it harder to remember the good times.</p>
<p>I wondered if you guys are willing to share your happy memories with me, and encourage some positive reinforcement of the good things that living in reality can…</p>
<p>When I'm low I cheer myself up with fake scenarios in my head, often without being conscious of doing it.</p>
<p>Maybe I dream of people paying attention to me, listening to me, being affectionate, or going on an adventure with my favourite characters. </p>
<p>Yet I find having MD makes it harder to remember the good times.</p>
<p>I wondered if you guys are willing to share your happy memories with me, and encourage some positive reinforcement of the good things that living in reality can bring.</p> Dreaming my life away random thoughtstag:wildminds.ning.com,2015-05-14:4661400:Topic:2069602015-05-14T00:40:16.457ZSarah Smithhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/SarahSmith
<p><font color="#993366" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">I have read a few diffrent post and I gotta say it is nice to not be completely alone. </font></p>
<p><font color="#993366" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">While we all have the same issues with being drawn into fantasy our fantasy are of course unique to us. </font></p>
<p><font color="#993366" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Some of us suffered some trauma but some like me did not.…</font></p>
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<p><font color="#993366" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">I have read a few diffrent post and I gotta say it is nice to not be completely alone. </font></p>
<p><font color="#993366" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">While we all have the same issues with being drawn into fantasy our fantasy are of course unique to us. </font></p>
<p><font color="#993366" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Some of us suffered some trauma but some like me did not.</font></p>
<p><font color="#993366" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">I never saw it as an addiction but a faulty coping mechanism. Which of course was not coping but running away. I have survived on it for so long and I did write a lot in the beginning but the last few years. </font></p>
<p><font color="#993366" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">It appears to me that most of us have some trouble with real people and prefer those in our daydreams. At the most basic level because the daydream people are nice while real people can be mean. </font><span style="color: #993366; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;">Of course it likely</span><span style="color: #993366; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"> goes deeper than that for some of us. </span></p>
<p><span style="color: #993366; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;">For me its about the various characters I make up and stories. So they are not always nice and supportive nor are they always mean or confusing in the way I find real people to often be. It depends on the story or scenario in my head. </span></p>
<p><font color="#993366" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">If we have issues with social situations or talking about MD they seem to be made worse when family, friends and doctors don't listen or say something hurtful. This personally is a huge fear for me because if I try to talk about it I am in my own way asking for help. (Trying to take action like they keep telling me to) and when they don't listen and/or say hurtful things I of course recoil to the daydreams. </font></p>
<p><font color="#993366" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">To give an example. one of the physical symptoms I suffer from is fatigue. Fatigue that is at times so very bad that it scared the hell out of me the first few times it happened. I can only describe it as feeling like i'm drowning in quicksand. Mental and Physical exhaustion that I cant explain. I attempted to ask my doctor and some family members for help during these times of fatigue. (You gotta understand the first few times it happened I was scared as hell I really thought I had been drugged or some other horrible thing was seriously wrong) Here I am in a pit of quicksand sinking deeper and deeper begging for help and the family who should love me and recognize something is very wrong just stands there watching me drown and does nothing. Or gets angry with me. They are suppose to know me and love me how can they think I WANT to be useless? To be an adult living with her parents? How can they possibly think for a second that I would do nothing for that long by Choice? </font><span style="color: #993366; font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;">This was just about the fatigue so I can only imagine if I tried explaining the daydreaming. </span></p>