When your dreams are better than reality... - Wild Minds network2024-03-29T10:03:50Zhttps://wildminds.ning.com/forum/topics/when-your-dreams-are-better-than-reality?commentId=4661400%3AComment%3A311123&x=1&feed=yes&xn_auth=noI could have said this for m…tag:wildminds.ning.com,2018-08-02:4661400:Comment:3111232018-08-02T21:30:57.610ZSilver Swanhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/SilverSwan51
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<p>I could have said this for myself if in my teens and 20's. I used to always love indulging in my fantasy life to escape the doldrums and let-downs of my reality. Apparently, I seriously had to wake up from my maladaptive day dreaming altogether, so that I can become self-supportive at some point. Getting a life for myself has never been easy for me and I still depend on my family to this day. Presently, I wake up to a reality that I totally condemned over my 20-year journey of…</p>
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<p>I could have said this for myself if in my teens and 20's. I used to always love indulging in my fantasy life to escape the doldrums and let-downs of my reality. Apparently, I seriously had to wake up from my maladaptive day dreaming altogether, so that I can become self-supportive at some point. Getting a life for myself has never been easy for me and I still depend on my family to this day. Presently, I wake up to a reality that I totally condemned over my 20-year journey of fantasizing. Sorry to break this, but waking up to an empty shell of an unfulfilled life feels pretty sad. Looking back at a future where I could not comprehend how people were reacting and warning me about the possible downward spirals day dreaming will bring in my future, it actually disturbs me. Today, I really wish I had listened, since I was 13 years old. <br/><br/>I respect you want to escape reality and enjoy some stimulating MDD, if that's what you love doing, then it all sounds good.</p> What medication?
What does it…tag:wildminds.ning.com,2018-07-30:4661400:Comment:3106372018-07-30T03:36:18.175ZFillyhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Filly
What medication?<br />
What does it do?
What medication?<br />
What does it do? OK, before anything else, are…tag:wildminds.ning.com,2018-07-28:4661400:Comment:3103762018-07-28T02:54:12.423ZPaul Rapphttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/PaulRapp
<p>OK, before anything else, are you on medication? It sounds like maybe you need to be. There are medications out there that can really help depression. I went through a major depression about ten years ago. I was reluctant to go on medication and resisted it for a long time, preferring to treat with therapy. I had a good therapist, which are few and far between and very hard to find, but while it did help the therapy was not enough. I tried one medication and had a bad reaction to it, so I…</p>
<p>OK, before anything else, are you on medication? It sounds like maybe you need to be. There are medications out there that can really help depression. I went through a major depression about ten years ago. I was reluctant to go on medication and resisted it for a long time, preferring to treat with therapy. I had a good therapist, which are few and far between and very hard to find, but while it did help the therapy was not enough. I tried one medication and had a bad reaction to it, so I avoided medication again for another couple of years. Then my therapist passed away and I had nobody. I agreed to try medication again and while it did bring some unpleasant side effects, the medication did help. There are several out there and you just need to find the one that works for you.</p>
<p>Now, to your main question. If I could actually live in my daydreams instead of reality, would I? </p>
<p>YES!</p>
<p>My life is good right now. I have no particular need to want to escape it, but my daydreams are AWESOME! Life would be so much better if I could live those lives that I have invented in my head. That is not because of depression or that my real life is bad, it's just that my imaginary life is so much better. </p>
<p>But that's really not possible. I suppose you could withdraw into a dream world and never leave it, but to the outside world you would be a catatonic and your daydreams still would not be real. You owe it to yourself to do what you can to make your real life livable, and that means dealing with your mental health problems. Find a medication that works for you. Your daydreams will still be there.</p>
<p></p> I feel pretty much the same.…tag:wildminds.ning.com,2018-07-27:4661400:Comment:3101682018-07-27T20:04:40.175ZEzili Slaterhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/EziliSlater
I feel pretty much the same. Not that my real life is bad, its pretty good, but id give it all up to live in my md worlds in a heartbeat and I feel so guilty about it. I have depression/bipolar and anxiety and whilst my life is "good" I often find myself unhappy and wanting to change things - except I don't have the power to do a thing as I'm 14 and therefore have a minimalistic power over my life in the long run - but I don't know what id do with my life even if I had the power as its…
I feel pretty much the same. Not that my real life is bad, its pretty good, but id give it all up to live in my md worlds in a heartbeat and I feel so guilty about it. I have depression/bipolar and anxiety and whilst my life is "good" I often find myself unhappy and wanting to change things - except I don't have the power to do a thing as I'm 14 and therefore have a minimalistic power over my life in the long run - but I don't know what id do with my life even if I had the power as its impossible for me to be real. That's something that often breaks me inside too - that my md friends will never be real, but id give anything for them to be Hi Sam, I do not exactly know…tag:wildminds.ning.com,2018-07-27:4661400:Comment:3102582018-07-27T15:42:10.481ZTeahttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/Tea
Hi Sam, I do not exactly know what to say to you, other than I hope that you don't give up hope.. I am not an expert on MD and depression so I feel I cannot give you good advice. I just wanted to let you know I read your story..
Hi Sam, I do not exactly know what to say to you, other than I hope that you don't give up hope.. I am not an expert on MD and depression so I feel I cannot give you good advice. I just wanted to let you know I read your story..