• Parasocial Relationships

    I tend to admire public figures and their families online, but feel that I have parasocial relationships with them. They have no idea that I think about them everybody and always reviewing their instagram platforms, videos, articles, and websites. I then start to fantasize that I am their friend…

    By Jessica Ballantyne

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  • Talking about it

    This is me, talking about my experience. Without any pessimism towards the situation. Without any optimism about the future, or any other feelings involved in general. Just plainly describing my day to day experience. I woke up today feelin the say way I felt yesterday, which was the same way I…

    By Cain

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  • Limerence and maladaptive daydreaming

    Limerence is a word that I came across a few times and forgot its definition as soon as I was done reading. Recently, YouTube recommendations gave me several videos to taste the topic itself, and what I watched was extremely interesting. To begin with, many symptoms of limerence overlap with…

    By Yukia

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  • Present in Body, Elsewhere in Thought

    I see that not everybody has my brain...and they're not me...but, I feel like whenever I'm around people, I got so embarrassed or burned. It does depend on the social group, but I happen to be around people who don't know what to make of me, and can't put a finger on what I'm doing in my head...to…

    By Jessica Ballantyne

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  • Partecipa alla nuova ricerca sul Maladaptive Daydreaming e Sogni Notturni- Italian

    CERCASI PARTECIPANTI PER UNA NUOVA RICERCA DELL’UNIVERSITÀ DI CATANIA SUL MALADAPTIVE DAYDREAMINGSalve a tutti, mi chiamo Giada, sono una specializzanda in Psicologia Clinica all’Università di Catania; pubblico questo post perché faccio parte di un gruppo di ricerca scientifica sul Maladaptive…

    By Giada Claudia Sbezzi

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  • Invitation to Participate in a Research Study

    Title of Study: Exploring Therapeutic Experiences of Maladaptive Daydreaming: Insights from an Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy perspectiveYou are invited to take part in a research study examining the experiences of individuals who engage in maladaptive daydreaming (MD) and who have…

    By Keeley

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  • Why is it so hard for some of us MDers to tell people our daydreams?

    For years, I've been working on writing my daydream down, in the hopes that getting it out onto the page would eventually help me tell it to my therapist. Last year, I gave him a written outline of my heroine's life. Recently, I've talked to him about less cringeworthy parts of the daydream. And…

    By Elaine Steele

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  • Trying to escape the system

    Hello everyone, I’m open to discuss and take some ideas from all people around the world, who thinks and want the same as me…I need to start some eco village our a community that help each other and build our freedom from this sick world.But I don’t know where to start and also don’t have ideia…

    By Helena Machado

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  • 25 Years in a Daydream: The Cost of Silence

    This may sound obvious to many daydreamers. I started MD when I was 12, and wish that I talked with my parents about my daydreaming disorder immediately when it started to make me laugh for nothing around everyone. It would've saved me the next 25 years of turmoil. Saying this, I daydreamed thickly…

    By Jessica Ballantyne

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  • Md started when I am very young

    My md literally started when I am at my beginning of age of reasoning means the moment I can remember I was daydreaming I was always a anxious and tensed kid when I was 6 years old I remember I wouldn't even go to the bathroom in school during class period due to fear my only escape was daydreaming…

    By Sethukrishna

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