Is MD a mental illness or an addiction?

[Zero]

I have only recently found out about MD but not sure whether it is something we are born with or pick up along the way. For me I have been daydreaming constantly for a very long time and want to start trying to find some answers.

Any thoughts?

[Zero]

I'm sorry about your friend. I remember when I was 8 to and hadn't long started a new primary school. I'd be on my own constantly in a particular spot daydreaming crazy stuff. Maybe it was because I couldn't handle being in a new environment with new people but then I had always found school hard and never liked it. It was my way of hiding from everything around me.

Creative Writer said:

I think for me I was born with it. My friend that just passed away recently said this came upon her when she was 8. Before then, she knew nothing of it. I remember my grandmother saying my uncle had imaginary friends as adult. So I'm not sure if its hereditary, situational, a brain imbalance or something we are born with. Those have always been my questions.

[greyartist]

I don't think there is one answer for everyone. I think it can be an addiction for some people, for others it is a symtom of another mental illness. I think it can also be a disorder on it's on, maybe hereditary or something simular to autism.

[Dreamer]

I suppose it is too early for us to state definitively what MDD is. It certainly feels like an addiction to me as it is so compulsive and it increased in intensity over time. I did it from a very young age and probably I was born with a tendency towards it, the same as some people have a natural proclivity to alcoholism.