Overcoming MD: Was it all just a lie? - Wild Minds network2024-03-28T15:22:25Zhttps://wildminds.ning.com/forum/topics/part-v-was-it-all-just-a-lie?commentId=4661400%3AComment%3A225381&feed=yes&xn_auth=noYes, I made. I relapsed sever…tag:wildminds.ning.com,2016-02-28:4661400:Comment:2255642016-02-28T15:16:36.444Zrosehttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/rose433
<p>Yes, I made. I relapsed several times. But specially these days I feel much better and I live most of my time in realty. I hope if I can keep going until the urge and the desire to daydream disappeared completely from my life.</p>
<p>Do you know? every time the desire to daydream appear I remind myself "IT IS OK TO DAYDREAM BUT REMEMBER YOU CAN FEEL THESE FEELING IN THE REAL LIFE TOO", as you said. It helped me a lot.</p>
<p>Yes, I made. I relapsed several times. But specially these days I feel much better and I live most of my time in realty. I hope if I can keep going until the urge and the desire to daydream disappeared completely from my life.</p>
<p>Do you know? every time the desire to daydream appear I remind myself "IT IS OK TO DAYDREAM BUT REMEMBER YOU CAN FEEL THESE FEELING IN THE REAL LIFE TOO", as you said. It helped me a lot.</p> Hey rose! Have you made any p…tag:wildminds.ning.com,2016-02-27:4661400:Comment:2253862016-02-27T22:11:52.373ZEretaiahttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Eretaia
<p>Hey rose! Have you made any progress since our last conversation? :)<br/> <br/> <cite>rose said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://wildminds.ning.com/forum/topics/part-v-was-it-all-just-a-lie#4661400Comment225381"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. They are very helpful. I read them from time to time in order to get help against my relapses.</p>
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<p>Hey rose! Have you made any progress since our last conversation? :)<br/> <br/> <cite>rose said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://wildminds.ning.com/forum/topics/part-v-was-it-all-just-a-lie#4661400Comment225381"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. They are very helpful. I read them from time to time in order to get help against my relapses.</p>
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</blockquote> Thank you for sharing your th…tag:wildminds.ning.com,2016-02-27:4661400:Comment:2253812016-02-27T18:34:17.345Zrosehttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/rose433
<p>Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. They are very helpful. I read them from time to time in order to get help against my relapses.</p>
<p>Thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. They are very helpful. I read them from time to time in order to get help against my relapses.</p> It never hurts to know.
I nev…tag:wildminds.ning.com,2016-02-23:4661400:Comment:2250942016-02-23T17:55:51.209ZCamoranhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Source
It never hurts to know.<br />
I never considered MD a cause of anything, in fact I think it's nothing more than an indicator. The stronger its influence, the greater the root problem that caused it.<br />
I have very good reasons to believe that daydreaming is the only replacement when it comes to psychological stuff one wants but doesn't have. There's an imbalance between the two, so MD fills the void and creates a false balance that is good and bad at the same time.
It never hurts to know.<br />
I never considered MD a cause of anything, in fact I think it's nothing more than an indicator. The stronger its influence, the greater the root problem that caused it.<br />
I have very good reasons to believe that daydreaming is the only replacement when it comes to psychological stuff one wants but doesn't have. There's an imbalance between the two, so MD fills the void and creates a false balance that is good and bad at the same time. You know, you actually came t…tag:wildminds.ning.com,2016-02-23:4661400:Comment:2249972016-02-23T17:42:22.773ZEretaiahttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Eretaia
<p>You know, you actually came to my mind while writing this. I thought, 'there's no way that Source who really believes that MD is the ultimate disaster would agree with this fluffy post.' Hehe. <br></br><br></br>This brings a question. Do you think that your sense of inner emptiness really comes from MD? Many people with severe MD do yet I'm pretty convinced that daydreaming is just an attempt to medicate illness, but not the illness itself. The emptiness and feeling of being cut off that people…</p>
<p>You know, you actually came to my mind while writing this. I thought, 'there's no way that Source who really believes that MD is the ultimate disaster would agree with this fluffy post.' Hehe. <br/><br/>This brings a question. Do you think that your sense of inner emptiness really comes from MD? Many people with severe MD do yet I'm pretty convinced that daydreaming is just an attempt to medicate illness, but not the illness itself. The emptiness and feeling of being cut off that people often ascribe to daydreaming do not come from MD. They come from depression that existed and still exists independently from addiction. When a daydreamer continuously blows off opportunities and avoids going out with friends so he could stay at home to daydream instead, it's not awesomeness of his daydreams that caused him to isolate himself from other people, it's not MD that should be blamed. It's the fact that if he actually did go out with his friends, he would feel inner emptiness. It's this that drives him to avoid real people and it's also what drives him to engage in MD. When a guy cannot fall in love with real girl because no woman will ever be as amazing as his fantasy girl that's too perfect for our human standards to understand, it's not fantasy lover or MD that's the root of his problem. What's to blame is his inability to connect to real people that <em>consequently</em> caused him to make up imaginary ones. And this inability is not caused by MD. It can be fueled but it's not created by it. The only real danger of MD is that it makes you postpone looking yourself in the mirror. <br/><br/>From the moment I said enough, it took around 2 years. And if it's any consolation to you, just a few months before I actually decided to turn the tables, my thinking was eerily similar to yours. <br/><br/></p> Visually, reading this post f…tag:wildminds.ning.com,2016-02-23:4661400:Comment:2250882016-02-23T14:08:45.722ZCamoranhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Source
<p>Visually, reading this post felt like I had written it myself, but its content didn't. It's filled with things I can't seem to understand, at least not fully.</p>
<p>You seriously sound like some sort of future me who found the solution and put it to use. How long did it take you to find it?</p>
<p>Visually, reading this post felt like I had written it myself, but its content didn't. It's filled with things I can't seem to understand, at least not fully.</p>
<p>You seriously sound like some sort of future me who found the solution and put it to use. How long did it take you to find it?</p> you freaking nailed it! I've…tag:wildminds.ning.com,2016-02-23:4661400:Comment:2249862016-02-23T10:27:04.098ZMynxhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Mynx
<p>you freaking nailed it! I've read all of your posting on here and I think youre the only person who has nailed it with how to deal with MDD. KEEP POSTING!!!</p>
<p>you freaking nailed it! I've read all of your posting on here and I think youre the only person who has nailed it with how to deal with MDD. KEEP POSTING!!!</p>