I have been alive for 19 years and for 3 years I have imagined that I am the richest person in the world and I have surpassed Elon Musk. My family does not support me because this disorder is unknown and they do not understand it. I have to go to university and a lot I want to study, but my thoughts are immersed in dreams

Hello MDers,

My name is Marta and I have been a maladaptive daydreamer for 7 years. It has destroyed me. My career, my relationships, my ability to socialise. Everything has been affected. 

I came to WildMinds to seek solace and maybe chat with some people around the globe who also suffer from MD. I have never met anyone in my life who suffers from MD, so I felt so so alone in this, and misunderstood. 

I have therefore decided to start an online…

I posted this on the forum first but then realized maybe it should go here? I don't know haha, pardon my confusion. 

Hi everyone! I see there's some activity here so I'm sure some of you will read this eventually.

My name is Natasha and I'm soon to be 24 years old. I have recollections of MD since I was 7 years old, but I probably started doing it before that.

I guess like many of you I had a very lonely childhood, I'm an only child and I have no cousins or…

It's been 7 years of being a maladaptive daydreamer.

It started during high school. My parents had gotten divorced, I hated how I looked physically, I had been bullied enough to have to change of school, and my sister, who was my biggest friend, left home to study abroad. I felt completely lonely and disgusted every time I looked at myself in the mirror. I had massive acne breakouts, I never fully developed "as a woman is supposed to" and people made fun of my small breasts and how…

When I was 7, my parents divorced. While I don't remember if it affected me or not, I do remember developing MD in that same year. It helped me a lot to distract from everything, and I built up this persona in my mind where I had freedom and power. 

As I grew older, my MDs made me feel like I was invincible. This took a hit to my social skills and awareness, and led me to get bullied once I entered high school. I thought that if I became my persona in my daydreams, the everyone would…

Hi, I signed up for this thing a while ago but I thought it was dead so I didn't end up using it. But hey, here I am!

I developed MD when I was 7, and it's still around today. I usually use writing and art as a way to express my experiences with it. As much as I appreciate it for helping me through rough times, I kinda want it gone. It's taken up so much of my time, my goals, my social life, and it's been getting worse lately, even though I feel happy. I was hoping to find some people…

سلام

شاید نتوانم انگلیسی را درست تایپ کنم، زبان مادری من نیست، مرا ببخشید، من در سنین پایین خیلی خیالبافی را تجربه می کردم، اما اخیراً آنقدر شدید شده است که حتی نمی توانم تمرکز کنم، دوستان من فکر کن من یک احمق هستم آنها مضطرب هستند

I have been a daydreamer for most part of my life. Childhood trauma kicked in and i did not have any choice.  I am active but i have distanced myself from the society. I did not concentrate on my career, I never had a girl friend all i have is an imaginary girl, I want to break this cycle by having a girlfriend,  But in India it is hard to find one. A one side love and rejection is only making this worse day by day. A good part of my life is wasted on daydreaming, Yet i am coming back and…

Has anyone tried Abilify (aripriprazole) or Quetiapine (seroquel) with any success?  TIA

Hi, in my daydreams I envision a totally different life, and I feel that I am no longer satisfied with who I am. Anyone else feel this way or something similar?

Recently I have found this website and realised that I am not the only one with Maladaptive Daydreaming. I want to share my story here, sorry for my bad English, I’m not a native speaker. 

So, it all started when I was 11-12 years old, after watching Harry Potter movies and reading the books. Since then I’ve been dreaming constantly. Dreaming about myself as a hero, a beautiful girl (I was bullied for being ‘ugly’), a savior.…

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZDV-0WS8DrBDebF3fvUFj9aXQvLnwFc7optFgL1MpFk/edit#heading=h.89sadpmirjer

This doc may help a lot of people here. Even if you don't have ADHD, I would highly recommend going through it once.

I have been handling this for all my life since I was 10 years old and its eating away my time. Today i found out that someone one year younger than me is doing much better than me and i could not help but feel envious. I have been daydreaming all my life and it has hindered with my progress. I make slower progress than my colleagues. I have always been that way since this started. I am so tired of this disease. I am so tired of living this way. This disease had lead me to have suicidal…

My name is Rahul(M23). I just found out a week ago that I have ADHD and also that there is a name for daydreaming I do, and it's not normal. I have always felt weird and unique because of this. However, after reading the stories of some of the members here, I do think that my MDD is not that severe and relatively manageable(despite it eating a lot of my time). I have always been a topper in school and an outlier in many aspects and have always felt like a genius about myself.



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