Gentili utenti,

sono una laureanda del corso di studi magistrale in psicologia clinica e di comunità dell'Università Federico II di Napoli.

Stiamo conducendo la presente ricerca allo scopo di esplorare alcuni aspetti associati all'esperienza di Maladaptive Daydreaming , ovvero alla tendenza al sognare ad occhi aperti maladattivi. In particolare, la ricerca è volta ad indagare…

I've had MD for more than 20 years. For most of my life, my daydreams have been pleasant and enjoyable, but in the last few years, things have changed drastically. Most of my daydreams now are really scary and unsettling, almost like catastrophic thoughts in the form of a movie in my head. Any time I watch a new show or see something on social media, my brain will twist it into something awful. Someone is abusing me, embarrassing me, torturing me, abandoning me, etc. It's always something…

Hi! My name is Marta and I have been a maladaptive daydreamer for 8 years. I know how difficult it is to struggle with excessive daydreaming. It affects your work, your relationships... and you can feel like you don't have control over your daydreams. Now that I am finishing my Master in Psychology, I have learned a lot about MD and how to best treat it. I would love to invite you to participate in my short online study I am currently conducting. Essentially, during 1 month, you…

I shall be eighty this year. Somehow I doubt if anyone else on this forum can say that ;-). I've been a compulsive daydreamer all my life but I'm not so sure about the "maladaptive" label. Yes, for many people it has been, and I'm not challenging or dismissing the experience of anyone else here. But for me the balance has been positive on the whole.

I was a weird child (probably on the autistic spectrum though I never had a formal diagnosis) so of course the other children picked on…

My book ,Maladaptive Daydreaming,a Memoir a Madness

A Movement to be Recognised (40 years of MDD)is sadly 

delayed until mid Jan due to Uk Author tax rules , But then

AMAZON books , just type it in , colourful cover , inexpensive 

Thanks every last one of you , this Fantastic safe space,

and of course Dr Eli Somer. Take Care x James 

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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.…

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. …

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,…

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…

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…