I just thought of something that's been bugging me. When I was a kid, I daydreamed a lot, but it was never as obtrusive or as bad at it has been for me in the past couple of years. I wasn't a normal kid, but I wasn't as weird as I am now either. I was pretty well-functioning, I guess. My fantasies didn't really take over my life and get out of my control until high school. I found online that the symptoms of depression, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder usually start as people get to be…

So, at the beginning of this week, I decided that I was going to stop daydreaming altogether. Since I started college in August, I started going to a therapist for MDD and depression, and in the last couple of months I had cut my daydreaming down from hours a day to maybe 30 minutes or so. Not to mention, going to therapy helped my talk to my mom and have a much better relationship with her (she has borderline personality disorder but is finally getting it under control- she's the reason I…