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…

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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…

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The most enduring subject of my MD is the relationship I had with my first boyfriend. He was so sweet. And so genuine. I knew he loved me. Still after all these years I can still hear his voice and feel those feelings. I have searched for that feeling with somebody else. So many years I have positioned my MD around having love again. I don't really seem to attract men that much. So I MD about it.

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…

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