"I think the reason why I'm so uncomfortable sharing the content of my daydreams is because they reveal something very personal about me, which I myself don't understand.  Great novelists who write about taboo feelings or elicit taboo…"

"Hi Kristy! I'm a daydream addict too, currently taking a year away from university, because MD was getting in the way of my studies. I found that the stress of school exacerbated my need to escape from real life.  I think the therapist may…"

"A few weeks ago I was so absorbed in a daydream that I failed to go to work. My job includes feeding chickens, so the poor chickens didn’t get breakfast until 5 pm! I felt terrible about it. But I don’t know to what extent it’s…"

"I have daydreams about people doing horrible things to each other, too, but I definitely wouldn’t call myself a masochist—or a sadist. The fact that I have masochistic daydreams (or sadistic daydreams—depending on whether I…"

"I have found working the Emotions Anonymous program to be very helpful, because although I have yet to meet another maladaptive daydreamer in EA, maladaptive daydreaming is basically an emotional problem, caused by an inability to feel our emotions…"

"According to the MD research website, MD is associated with ADHD, which is characterized by difficulty concentrating.  When I was first getting help for my daydreaming issue, I got tested for ADHD. I had to focus on a very simple, boring task…"

"I don’t think I have memory problems, but I do have problems with paying attention to things I need to remember, because I’m half daydreaming while trying to pay attention. I lose things because I’m only half paying attention when…"

"Hmm…if it were me, I would try to just feel the pain in my chest, without trying to escape from it in any way. I’d tell myself, ok, I feel pain and fear, so be it. And I’d try to be there for my hurting body, just like I’d…"

"I have violent power fantasies, too. The heroine of these fantasies is a good person, whose actions are justifiable, but she has to hurt a lot of people in order to save others, and I take sadistic pleasure in the pain she inflicts and the fear she…"