"Hi Elaine,
I am doing a study on therapy and maladaptive daydreaming if you would be interested in participating at all. If so, you can contact me at k.mountford3@unimail.derby.ac.uk
I’d really appreciate your input"
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Elaine Steele Feb 17, 2024. 4 Replies 1 Like
Do any other maladaptive daydreamers out there identify as having sensory processing sensitivity/being a "highly sensitive person"? If so, do you feel that your sensitivity contributes to your…Continue
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"An update: I began to share the whole daydream with him today, and it was one of the happiest experiences of my life! What made the difference?
We talked about how sharing the daydream would make all the frightening, horrifying, and shameful parts…"
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 now, after several sessions of just talking about what it feels like to think about telling him the whole thing--and weeks of practice just uttering difficult sentences aloud--I finally took the plunge…See More
"For me too, the pain of rejection is part of what I try to "turn off" by daydreaming. "
"I am an HSP. I have been a daydreamer for as long as I can remember. I think it contributes in the sense that being sensitive, HSPs are very expressive and need to be understood. HSPs can't help but let things out in the open. But if you face…"
"I do have sensitivities and emotional stimulation by my worldly surrounds. Regards, these days, I try not to daydream "that much." I wish that I wasn't a maladaptive daydreamer. It's distracting, illness-inducing and…"
"Yes, I'm an HSP also, was what I found first before finding this. Since I've been MD since as long as I can remember the worlds in my overactive imagination as I called it before this were so real, I wasn't sure which was…"
MD and Sensory Processing Sensitivity
Do any other maladaptive daydreamers out there identify as having sensory processing sensitivity/being a "highly sensitive person"? If so, do you feel that your sensitivity contributes to your daydreaming issue?I think it's precisely because I'm highly sensitive that I can visualize my daydreams so clearly and feel their emotions so intensely. I also think it's precisely because I'm highly sensitive that I experience this urge to "turn off" all the sensory and emotional intensity of the real…See More
"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…"
12 Step Recovery for MD
This is a group for people interested in applying the 12 steps to their compulsive fantasizing. I am hoping there are a few of you out there . . . See More
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Why is it so hard for some of us MDers to tell people our daydreams?
Posted on November 12, 2025 at 12:30am 2 Comments 1 Like
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 now, after several sessions of just talking about what it feels like to think about telling him the whole thing--and weeks of practice just uttering difficult sentences aloud--I finally took…
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