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November 2025 Blog Posts (5)

Invitation to Participate in a Research Study

Title of Study: Exploring Therapeutic Experiences of Maladaptive Daydreaming: Insights from an Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy perspective

You are invited to take part in a research study examining the experiences of individuals who engage in maladaptive daydreaming (MD) and who have previously received therapy in which their daydreaming was openly discussed, explored, or addressed. The purpose of this study is to explore how people who experience…

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Added by Keeley on November 25, 2025 at 1:04pm — No Comments

Why is it so hard for some of us MDers to tell people our daydreams?

For years, I've been working on writing my daydream down, in the hopes that getting it out onto the page would eventually help me tell it to my therapist. Last year, I gave him a written outline of my heroine's life. Recently, I've talked to him about less cringeworthy parts of the daydream. And now, after several sessions of just talking about what it feels like to think about telling him the whole thing--and weeks of practice just uttering difficult sentences aloud--I finally took…

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Added by Elaine Steele on November 12, 2025 at 12:30am — 3 Comments

Trying to escape the system

Hello everyone, I’m open to discuss and take some ideas from all people around the world, who thinks and want the same as me…

I need to start some eco village our a community that help each other and build our freedom from this sick world.

But I don’t know where to start and also don’t have ideia what I need to do for making this dream come true.

So… I ask all of you what is better and what’s we can do for have a better life , I don’t what to be rich, my goal is to have my house,… Continue

Added by Helena Machado on November 10, 2025 at 10:35pm — 4 Comments

25 Years in a Daydream: The Cost of Silence

This may sound obvious to many daydreamers. I started MD when I was 12, and wish that I talked with my parents about my daydreaming disorder immediately when it started to make me laugh for nothing around everyone. It would've saved me the next 25 years of turmoil. Saying this, I daydreamed thickly through my teens, 20's and maybe regularly in my 30's.

My grades were bare passes and I made lousy decisions towards my future, which I eventually regretted.

In the…

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Added by Jessica Ballantyne on November 5, 2025 at 1:19pm — 1 Comment

Md started when I am very young

My md literally started when I am at my beginning of age of reasoning means the moment I can remember I was daydreaming I was always a anxious and tensed kid when I was 6 years old I remember I wouldn't even go to the bathroom in school during class period due to fear my only escape was daydreaming does anyone had condition like this

Added by Sethukrishna on November 4, 2025 at 7:31am — No Comments