when did you realize??

[starfoot01]

i was wondering today when did you guys realize that you DD alot? and what mafe you look it up?

i realized when i was listening to music and i started ttearing up about something in my DD that was sad and i thought to myself ' wow, why am i tearing up its not real' and that got me thinking why am i DDing so much? so i googled it.

[BilboBaggins]

I'm not entirely sure.. I always thought it was normal to daydream as much as I did. I remember talking to my sister about what people think about all day and thinking "hey, that's funny..she hasn't mentioned other worlds in her head! That must be so boring!" so then I typed in "imaginary worlds in your head" on google and found a bunch of blogs and such, and of course this site!

[Wish Upon A Wish]

I realised I probably dd too much, but I realized I'm not that happy lately either, and realized, 'crap, am I depressed' and well, I did turn out to have minor depression caused by glandular fever, which, by the time I got the blood test, was mostly gone.

On sixbillionsecrets.com, someone sayd they had MD and so I looked it up and thought 'holy *insert swearword here*, that's me!" And I found this site, and, well, here I am.

[lizbourbon]

I was thinking it was normal, too. When I was younger there was no internet around, so it took me forever to look it up. I googled "imaginary friends" first, although I knew that wasn't exactly it. When I found this site a few months ago, that was the first time I really understood what I am doing.

[Elizabeth]

Well, it is something that I've always done and my little brother used to pretend and play with me so I thought I was normal. I realized when he kind of grew out of the the pretend thing that I might be a little different. I remember I asked my mom if she moved like I did and she said no but thought I was just overly creative. We called it my "Thinking". I began to suspect that my friends and other people didn't do this quite like I did, but just figured I would just do it on my own time and not worry about it. I just didn't want anyone but family to see me, and I honestly became self-conscious a little in front of them too. When I was in high school I went through a terrible bout of depression and realizing that this "thinking" that I do isn't normal. I tried to stop and I went to a therapist but I never told her about my daydreaming, we just covered my depression. Stopping didn't work and I would become over anxious, stressed, uptight and just as unhappy as I was before. My parents said that everyone has their 'quirks' they deal with so we just decided to think of it as a gift and something to help me be creative. Fast forward a couple years fresh out of college and I'm still doing it; some times are ok, some I feel get out of hand. I was wondering if this was an actual mental disorder and I looked it up on the internet and found a couple sites including this one. I was floored others did this and finally felt like I wasn't so alone.