Jane Wilson's Posts - Wild Minds network2024-03-29T12:22:19ZJane Wilsonhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/JaneWilsonhttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/3145233901?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://wildminds.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=1emdg6xo83v3h&xn_auth=noWhat if maladaptive daydreaming is a medical necessity?tag:wildminds.ning.com,2016-11-01:4661400:BlogPost:2476392016-11-01T21:32:36.000ZJane Wilsonhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/JaneWilson
<p> have not generated any new input for a long time but I can to realize that my condition could have been a form of self-medication to help me deal with my sleep apea. In my case, I suffered from depression beginning from the third grades, that is also when I can remember the day dreaming. In my case day dreaming was about creating characters, stories and above all relationships that made me happy. Happy enough to create serration, I am sure this was a method of self coping that my body…</p>
<p> have not generated any new input for a long time but I can to realize that my condition could have been a form of self-medication to help me deal with my sleep apea. In my case, I suffered from depression beginning from the third grades, that is also when I can remember the day dreaming. In my case day dreaming was about creating characters, stories and above all relationships that made me happy. Happy enough to create serration, I am sure this was a method of self coping that my body chose to keep me alive, and perhaps sane.</p>
<p>Then as I mature I developed sleep apea, even though I had not been diagnosed, I had terrible snoring and could never remember dreaming when I sleep. Whenever I actually had a job that included insurance I could afford, testing for sleep apea was not covered. In fact I did not get tested until my late fifties, which immediately got me a machine, I learned that I was choking and struggling so hard to breathe that my body could never slip in to sleep deep enough to dream. It was also the cause of chronic fatique and other unpleasant things. Again I thing a lot of the maladaptive dreaming was done to make up for this huge gap in the natural biorhythm of my body. I still do maladaptive dreaming but it is more something I wait to do, am I am still addicted to it, yes. But if it is something your body actually needs can it truly be called an addiction?</p>Published a book!tag:wildminds.ning.com,2012-05-20:4661400:BlogPost:896162012-05-20T10:12:26.000ZJane Wilsonhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/JaneWilson
<p>I haven't been visiting this site in awhile. I finally managed to publish my first novel as an ebook. It is on a site called smashwords.com, you can find it by doing a search on the author name which is "Veradance". You can download 20% for free so give it a look. The reason I bring it up was this is really the first productive thing I have done with MD. I am close to 60 and have lived with this my whole life, I learned to manage it. I hope to write more and improve with each one. I…</p>
<p>I haven't been visiting this site in awhile. I finally managed to publish my first novel as an ebook. It is on a site called smashwords.com, you can find it by doing a search on the author name which is "Veradance". You can download 20% for free so give it a look. The reason I bring it up was this is really the first productive thing I have done with MD. I am close to 60 and have lived with this my whole life, I learned to manage it. I hope to write more and improve with each one. I thought there might be someone on this site who could be encouraged and who might not wait so long to do something productive with their imagination.</p>Depressiontag:wildminds.ning.com,2011-05-23:4661400:BlogPost:272052011-05-23T11:04:48.000ZJane Wilsonhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/JaneWilson
<p>For me my daydreaming has a strong link to depression. I have suffered from life threatening depression since I was in grade school. My emotions in real life where always trying to kill me. It was only in daydreaming where I became someone else that I could escape the self-loathing. I tried different medications and several different years of therapy but it made no difference. It was only in my Christianity that I was able to finally break the power of it. Yet I could not give up the…</p>
<p>For me my daydreaming has a strong link to depression. I have suffered from life threatening depression since I was in grade school. My emotions in real life where always trying to kill me. It was only in daydreaming where I became someone else that I could escape the self-loathing. I tried different medications and several different years of therapy but it made no difference. It was only in my Christianity that I was able to finally break the power of it. Yet I could not give up the daydreaming, where I could find the respect, love and acomplishments that would never be mine in reality. I tried to split the difference by making sure that my day dreams where never about the real world or my real life. In my real life my emotions are sealed to prevent them from escaping and causing harm. In my dreams the character is free to feel positive feelings, if I were not so lazy, I would write more books.</p>
<p> </p>Oldest MD ??tag:wildminds.ning.com,2011-04-05:4661400:BlogPost:177992011-04-05T13:00:00.000ZJane Wilsonhttps://wildminds.ning.com/profile/JaneWilson
<p><span class="font-size-4" style="font-family: times new roman,times;">I am begining to suspect, I may be the oldest member currently attached to this Maladaptive Dreamer. Good news, finally I am leading the curve on something! It must be a challenge to build an interactive group from a selection of people who by their very defination do not interact with other real human beings, at least not well or on an emotional level. There are of course exceptions but in general I think that…</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: times new roman,times;" class="font-size-4">I am begining to suspect, I may be the oldest member currently attached to this Maladaptive Dreamer. Good news, finally I am leading the curve on something! It must be a challenge to build an interactive group from a selection of people who by their very defination do not interact with other real human beings, at least not well or on an emotional level. There are of course exceptions but in general I think that relationships that result in positive emotional exchange are hard to come by, varying from rare to extinct. The nice thing about daydreaming is you can have positive relationships any time you want, and recieve all the warm and fuzzy emotional rewards without any risk. Except for the few unpleasent side effects attached to people who do this as a lifestyle, it would be an enviable state. We would be giving lectures to the individuals who need to learn to daydream or to do it better. There would even be charities to help the poor unfortunates who are stuck living in reality.</span></p>
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