Would you like to share your story with me?

[wieke]

Hello!

I'm Wieke and I've been suffering from MD for as long as I can remember. Because it is such a bic part of my life I want to know more about daydreaming. For example I would like to know how much it can effect a life and wheter it is an addiction or not. 

I would like to write an article or book about the results. In order to have enough information for my book, I would like to ask some of you a few questions and know your stories. 

If you want to share your story with me, would you sent me a friend request so we can chat privately? ( I will not put something you tell me in my book or article without permission. Also I will do it under an anonymous name unless you give permission)

Or commont on this and I will contact you.                                            Thanks in advance!

[Jessica Ballantyne]

I started daydreaming when I was 12, as I felt lonely and confused, merging into adolescence and not fitting in anywhere. I found it challenging to verbally express myself and interact with people. Many people made fun of me for this, so I decided to use my MD worlds as an escapism, from the pain and loneliness I felt in my situation. My MD often derived from movies, books, songs and TV series. Eventually this grew on me, and I started losing concentration on everyday life, including school, work and friend circles, even relationships. I kept on with this addiction all through my teens and young adult years. People often caught me making faces, staring around a room (and at them), and laughing for absolutely nothing. Overall, MD made me an extremely quiet individual, making me look all untalkative and timid around others. I wasn't so successful in career, and even relationships, which made me upset. Eventually my MD addiction came to a stall in my early-mid thirties. Regularly my head is clear and I'm attentive in life, but I carry a burden on my shoulders that I daydreamed to an extent it put me into financial trouble.

To this day, I am struggling a lot, and wish that I never started MD. It made me feel elated with happiness as a kid, but as an adult, it caused me many problems, and I wonder if my life will ever pick up. Another thing about my MD, it kept on making me think things will improve, get better and get happier. All the things I want will eventually come to me—they won't! It was up to me to make it all happen myself, but because I was in a daydream daze, I made it very difficult for myself to climb and succeed. Scary as it sounds. I realize that I had a daydreaming disorder that lied to me. Made me think that things were going to be gold—it's vice versa.