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Integrating MD into real life

Hello everyone, as a 20-year MD'er, I just joined this community, and I'd like to share a few things that I believe might be helpful to the others.

We don’t necessarily need to stop doing MD entirely.

Some research shows that the brain activity of people who do MD is similar to the brain activity of people addicted to different things. So yes, we are indeed addicts.

I asked myself this question: How can I benefit from this?

For a while now, I’ve been…

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Added by Han Leonard on November 4, 2024 at 9:30am — 5 Comments

Kind of Losing the Plot a bit here

Hi again :)

In the past week, I've been going overboard with MDing. I've been finding it enjoyable again, which I'm not very happy about. My feet are completely wrecked. Walking now is painful. The bruise on my foot has gone from red to complete black. I just spent an hour cutting out the dead skin and now there's patches of uneven and multi-coloured skin. The worst part is I'm going away in 2 weeks for a holiday to the beach with friends, and I feel so self-conscious and ashamed to…

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Added by Mils on November 3, 2024 at 6:51am — 1 Comment

Over 40 days MD free - but I still wasn't happy

I've managed to go over 40 days without MD, but I still wanted to do it. I felt more and more anxious and everything seemed more dull. I finally told my boyfriend about it, and he went digging in Reddit forums to try find me some helpful advice. I joined too. Finally, he sends me a massive post from someone who quit for months. And the main point they made was that balance is more important than quitting. How can you just go back to normal life after living a fantasy? It's so boring. So now…

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Added by Mils on October 29, 2024 at 6:11pm — 3 Comments

Life plan

seemed like too big a question. I came across as a bit arrogant, and I felt bad because I didn’t mean to lecture anyone.

Then I explained myself better.

The thing is, for me, a "life plan" means the direction you're following. It means something like, "I’m babysitting while studying, and then in two years, I’ll decide what else I want to do," or "I want a job that allows me time to dedicate to my true passion."

I think it’s important to give yourself a direction.…

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Added by Valeria Franco on October 26, 2024 at 9:53am — 2 Comments

O que fazer?

Eu procurei um psiquiatra para entender esses devaneios e comecei a tomar remédios para ansiedade e consequentemente parei de sonhar acordada. O problema é que sinto falta. Antes eu podia sonhar e fingir que a minha vida era boa e agora eu vejo que não é bem assim e eu faço qualquer coisa pra voltar a sonhar como antes. Era o meu refúgio!!

Added by Kelly on October 14, 2024 at 5:02pm — 1 Comment

I understand the problem

I understand the problem. I don't speak English, I use a translator, so please forgive me if any of the sentences are disjointed. I found the group this week and although I feel used to my obsessive imagination, I feel that it is harming my daily life. If I let it go, I won't interact with anyone anymore, because I find it all very frustrating and uncontrollable. In my imagination, I am always the protagonist: vibrant, admired, loved, sexy. I always get the best jobs, relationships and… Continue

Added by Felicity on October 12, 2024 at 7:32am — 4 Comments

33 Days MD-free!

Hey! So by some miracle, I've finally managed to surpass my 14-day-streak of not maladaptive daydreaming. 33 days, woohoo!!! I'm just gonna tell you my thoughts and experiences in dot-points for the sake of time and ease:

  • Despite still having strong urges to do it every now and then, it's starting to repulse me. Thinking about it reminds me of how horrible I would feel about myself after doing it.
  • Even though I have not properly MDed for a month, it's still manifesting…
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Added by Mils on October 8, 2024 at 4:18am — 1 Comment

Adult me is still 15 in her daydreams

So it all started long back when I was hardly 14-15 ..I am from India .I have always been a daydreamer since my childhood but that time it used to be very less ...I had 2 major operations of my left leg when I was 14 ..the whole journey from pre op to post op and recovery period was extremely painful and exhausting both physically and mentally .

        That is from where my daydreams start increasing ..now they were…

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Added by Nikki on October 3, 2024 at 5:30pm — 5 Comments

My story

This website is trying to prevent me helping people 

I just through Horizon books published a book 

available online and in stiore soon called Maladaptive Daydreaming,A Memoir

A Madness , A Movement to be Recignisedby myself James Charles Relton

a 40 yr MDDer, a brutal but honest read out online and in store next month 

if it makes one of yiou youngsters , mums or dads feel less alone with its 

self help section it would have been worth thec trouble.…

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Added by JamesRelton on September 26, 2024 at 3:10pm — 1 Comment

8 very long days

It's my 8th day without MD. I had a weird dream and then I tried to stop. 

Now a few days have passed.

My brain says it wasn't that bad, you can live with it. Return to it. …



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Added by Schatten on August 31, 2024 at 6:00am — 3 Comments

find to proceed

Daydreams are a way for people to locate themselves, what they value, what they desire, the feelings that make them feel good, for example, if a person often dreams about killing a dragon, it means that the feeling What they value most is courage, everyone in the world has daydreams, they dream, most of the time real life is different from dreams, but that's life, so when we move away from daydreams, we feel lost , in a world that is much more tedious, slow and uncontrollable than it seems,…

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Added by John Alves on August 24, 2024 at 9:47am — 1 Comment

I could've been someone

hiiii it's been a while

so lately I've been struggling with a lot of things, and then something hit me. If I didn't have MD for the majority of my life, I might've been able to achieve what I have dreamt of. Maybe if I didn't lose all those hours to it, I could've developed the social skills and intelligence to get what I wanted by now. I always dreamy of revenge of people who've hurt me, but I can't execute those plans now, I don't know I'm just writing stuff. It just hurts me to…

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Added by Mils on August 17, 2024 at 6:58pm — 6 Comments

I call it my demon.

Hello everyone,

I discovered this site a year ago. Until then I didn't know what MD was and it shocked me to my core. I was not alone, but i didn't change anything and I ignored everything I read and continued.

A brief summary of my demon (as I call him). I am successful, respected, loved. I have a job that I don't have in real life.

I keep imagining the same situation. Everyone admires me, I'm important. The situation varies in relation to the person. It depends on who…

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Added by Schatten on August 9, 2024 at 10:18am — 3 Comments

First time here

Hi, this is my first time here. I only learned about what is maladaptive daydream yesterday and it kinda scared me because the symptoms were too familiar to me. English is not my first language, so if anything's wrong please have some patience.



I'm still processing all of this and trying to understand and accept. I would really like to know how it was for all of you accepting and understanding? I think this maybe me the start for me, to try to control my MD.



To me it… Continue

Added by Murilo on August 8, 2024 at 6:14am — No Comments

Me and my mind

Long time no see everyone!!

So, my previous post was rather depressing, and I was honestly not well mentally. Now I'm much better. 

I've decided to post an update, and this post is really important to me personally as it is my anniversary on this website. It's been a year since I discovered the community of people just like me. It feels surreal, but I somehow managed to…

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Added by Lily of the valley on August 7, 2024 at 7:30am — No Comments

Death of My Mom (10 Year Anniversary Memory Dump)

Hello people of Wild Minds,

Today is my mom's 10-year deathaversary. I'm 25 now, and my mom died when I was 15. I was actually on Wild Minds when she died, and I made a few blog posts about it at the time.

Anyway, since it's her 10 year deathaversary, I've been visiting some old memories. I've always been someone who's found it therapeutic to write about impactful/traumatic memories, so figured I'd write a sort-of narrative about my experiences.

July 23rd, 2014 was the…

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Added by Rachel on July 31, 2024 at 10:14pm — 2 Comments

I don't understand

I should be asleep, but I need to tell someone because I need to feel heard.





A few months ago I met someone, and we talked into the early hours of the morning and throughout the day. My daydreams seemed to have almost silenced. They diminished and I had the strength to stop anything that went against reality. I was living, finally. I never allowed myself to create scenarios with real people for fear that they would become real, a bit crazy perhaps, but I still believe… Continue

Added by the Kim I created on July 26, 2024 at 7:51pm — 1 Comment

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Added by Nes on July 22, 2024 at 6:45pm — No Comments

Fighting days

Everyone has daydreams, this is dreaming, we, unlike other people, simply get addicted to it, you will never get rid of daydreams, because it is natural in human life, unless you learn to live without it, incredibly, there are a small proportion that works, but the most likely is that they are those people who had some life circumstance that contributed to this, such as having to take care of their family from an early age, take food home, things like that, people who from an early age, did not… Continue

Added by John Alves on July 4, 2024 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

My invisible enemy

Ok, I'm not very good with texts and especially in English (I'm from Brazil), it's a surprise for me to meet people who are suffering from the same thing as me, because I actually discovered what MD is about three days ago, but I've been fighting him for seven years and I didn't even know.



I always felt like there was something wrong with me, it was strange, right after I finished high school, that's when it got worse, I converted a little before finishing school, and that was… Continue

Added by John Alves on June 25, 2024 at 2:56pm — No Comments

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