i have completely made up some of my characters, but others are based on real-life people.

most characters that i have are based on several real-life people. their appearance might be based on one person, while their personality is based on of two or three different people, and how they dress is based on another person, too. i don't have any characters that are exact copies of people in real life. even the characters that are only based on one person, i make some changes to.

i…

So yesterday as I was taking my dog for a walk in the morning I realized something. This would normally be a time I was in full DD mode because I was alone and the dog isn’t gonna judge me if I’m whispering to myself (I live in a very rural area so there aren’t very many people around), and when I’m in that state of mind I’m usually looking at the ground or just kind of spaced out and in my own head. I never realized until yesterday how much it really keeps me from seeing the world. I mean…

This will be long, sorry! If you read all of it, you are truly a patient soul!

I'm not sure if any of you know the Allegory of the Cave, so for those who don't I will briefly explain. The long dead philosopher Plato had a description of a cave. Inside this cave there was a person sitting, facing the cave wall, with their hands tied behind their back so they couldn't move. Behind this person was the cave exit where the light came in.…

Wow. I just joined this network yesterday, after months of trying to ignore a serious part of my life. For years now, I've thought I was crazy, but that's obviously not the case, luckily (though in some ways... lol).

I just wanted to thank all the great people who have created resources for myself and others to learn from and take comfort in!

<3

-L

Its been a little over 43 hours and I still haven’t had a DD. I’m very proud of myself. It actually hasn’t been as hard as I thought but I have had a couple times where I really wanted to. Actively trying not to is really helping to show me where my triggers are, when I usually do it, and where I am when I usually do it. Its surprising me a little. 

One big place I always knew I did it a lot was in the car. Partly because I am totally alone and I don’t care if people see me talking to…

In my anger

I broke my "happy" face

Now

so deep in sadness

I’m not sure if I can…

I have been suffering from MDD for as long as I can remember. I just never knew what it was called. Now that I know I have more hope than ever that I’ll be able to stop daydreaming. There are other people who do this. It has a name. People know about it. This is huge for me. I’ve been living in shame thinking I was the only one who did this. I was afraid even to tell my therapist about it because I was afraid I had schizophrenia or something awful that would mean I’d have to go on medication…

So far since i joined the chat i have talked and interacted on forums  a lot and it seems our DDs got as most common themes:

. your ideal self in a plot line you invented or in a plot line that follows events in real life

. a character and a plot line that could be a version of you, a character created by you or a character from a book/movie/tvseries/anime.

. romantic relationships and obsessions over celebrities or real…

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So the other day I was fed up with daydreaming and decided I needed some answers to clear all the clutter in my head. 

So I went to go see a therapist. Except that she wasn't real and she was just another made-up character in my head. In fact, she had her own made-up little office and made-up desk and I sat there in my daydream talking to her about my daydreams. 

And this actually helped me gain some insight into my daydreams (why I feel compelled to daydream,…

For quite a while now I have been saddened about how society labels you with a social reputation, and it sticks to you forever.  When this reputation sticks it basically prevents you from changing your personality. 

For a while now I have wanted to change mine from being energetic and outgoing to something else. Because unlike when I first started going to school I a sometimes scared to meet or talk to people from time to time. But with my social reputation, I feel that I have…

                Inspiration. I’m constantly asked “What inspires you to write?”, whether it is by an online quiz or an actual person. I am then expected to answer the question in one to two sentences, no more or no less. This question then leaves me staring at my interviewer, open-mouthed and distant, for at least several moments. No, it is not because I have no inspiration… It is because I seem to have too much.

                I am inspired the moment I wake up in the morning, by…

I was just curious what the age of our eldest member was.  I'm almost 41 and the other day I was thinking about my inablilty to stop MDing and will I be doing this when i'm 50, 60, 70, 80 plus?  Does this ever get better with age?  I mean are you able to control it more, have more success in eliminating it, or is it worse because it has become such a reinforced behaviour?

Maybe its just me but when I drink, its like the urge to DD goes away. Well not completely go away but the urges subsize in a way. I feel no pressure from the outside world. Well, you probably know how it feels to drink anywway. everything seems how could you say it.........easier in some way.

Anyways back to the point, for the first time i started eeing a phyccologist and she diagnosed me with anxiety, which in her point of view causes my DD. I know alcohol is deppressent,…

Right now at this moment I am going through one of the worst things to ever strike me... EVER. 

It is like I want to do something besides what I am doing right now and just go do something else. But then I think about doing that and then I suddenly do not want to do it anymore...  I hate this feeling, I get it every so often and it just sucks. 

Like right now I suddenly WANT to go play god of war II. But then I think of doing it... And then I instantly do not…

I've come in a time in my life where everything has come to ahead and im uncertain of were i am heading. Even though, being in the last year of my course, less then two months to go, i've come to realise, which is something my therpist has said, even though i'm MDing more and more, The coping, which i use the coping mechnism is breaking, and it's not like that its breaking because i'm starting to get out of it, in the sense life is becoming more and more difficult.

Everyday is hard,…

Well, I'm supposed to be studying... but I don't have my materials... again. So here it goes, SHORT BLOG POST STYLE!

I'm going to use the next few minutes to tell you about a few of my daydream characters, because I have nothing better to do. I'd also like to hear about some of yours, if you feel like sharing!

Please excuse my spelling and grammar. I'm going to make this a very informal blog post... This will not occur very often, I…