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Maladaptive Daydreaming: where wild minds come to rest

January 2022 Blog Posts (3)

I have no other place to do this

today i started at my first job. i just had an anxiety attack and started screaming a lot. i am feeling sad and empty and confused and very very very pathetic. i don't like my chosen field and i don't remember my classes, i feel like i am falling off a cliff. i feel like i am an imposter in my own life and i can see the time when my bosses are going to realize how horrible i am. and worse: i need this job, i need to help my mom urgently because we are in a very very bad situation and i should… Continue

Added by Yelena Cheeli on January 24, 2022 at 3:01pm — 5 Comments

For those in therapy, what kind of therapist do you have??

This is my first post in a long time. Decided to go back into therapy for MD, as the daydreaming has been getting a little overwhelming...multiple emotional breakdowns in the past few months. My "intake" appointment with the psychologist went somewhat unexpectedly in that she has no idea where to send me. She says I don't have depression or anxiety, and they've never had anyone that she knows of with a case of maladaptive daydreaming.

Recent research out of Eli Somer's lab shows it…

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Added by Water Lily on January 19, 2022 at 11:49am — 2 Comments

1965. Effect of emotional deprivation and neglect on babies. Subtitled in English

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChoOExRLT4Q

The narration of this film references antiquated Freudian psychoanalytic theory, refrigerator mother theory and other anachronisms, and should be taken in a historical context. Catalogue description: This film studies the effect of emotional deprivation on the sensory-motor behaviour of infants aged 7 to 18…

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Added by Observer on January 11, 2022 at 12:30pm — No Comments