Hello there friends daydreamers! I've built up a quick questionnaire about your experience as having Maladaptive Daydreaming Disorder, the main purpose of this questionnaire is basically to gather statistics and better understand the disorder. You can answer the questionnaire and other people who doesn't suffer from MDD can fill it too, so we can actually establish comparisons! This questionnaire is totally anonymous, there is no way for us to know your identity. 

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I need help. My friend who works with me has convinced me that he doesn't have all the answers and I need to talk to someone who can help me better than him. The thing is I live in a small isolated native community and there is no help for me here. I leave town 2-3 times a year. Does anyone know of any online resources I could take advantage of? Or is there anyone on here willing to talk to me to try to find what's really making me feel like my life is worthless? At this point in my life I'm…

(one of the earliest drawings I did when I was 10)

So basically I've had the same daydream for the past ten years. The first thing I imagined was a magnificent flying warship in the skies. Ever since, I built around hat concept. By the time of 5th grade I had a nice plot going, with things being added left and right.…

Had this passage come up while having a daydream where holli and Aspen meet for the first time. Please see my old blogs from my profile page so you can understand a bit more. In this dream, holli has just run away from a tamer who had upset her. She had run quite a long way, and was just being sighted by Aspen's "clan" of feral humans. Aspen is actually domestic. Holli had a run-in with the clan several miles back, she did not know they were human. The leaders of the clan had sent aspen…

Hello all,

This summer I visited with a therapist several times. I struggle with depression in addition to MD. 

In our first meeting, I was a bit surprised. Instead of talking about my MD, Janet asked me about my family. She asked me if there were any "villains" of my childhood. When I thought back to my childhood, there was just one person who could cause me delirious fear, though I never thought of him as a villain. I love my brother, infinitely. So why did he beat me,…

This is the sort of post I've written a number of times - in my head and verbally to myself. It's the nature of this problem that what we can do in our imaginations is equal to what we can do in the real world. I wonder how many posts and articles have gone unwritten in reality because they were so beautifully crafted in the mind and left there lest they be tainted by public contact. 



I found out about MD when I was looking for…

Wow.

Has it really been two years since my last visit to this site?

I used to come on here daily, often just to lurk about and chat. This site helped me through a really rough time in my life… I found this site way-back-when, back when I was suffering from severe depression and thought I was the only one in the universe who was addicted to their own daydreams. This site, and the knowledge that others out there went through the same…

"You want to quiet the noise in your head to solidify that fragile germ of an idea," says Dr. Jung-Beeman at Northwestern.

Here's some advice I used before. If you have a sharp mind, you can daydream all you want ... you will feel good and still have self-control. Play puzzle games (Chess, Sudoku etc...). If you have Facebook search Brain Buddies. It's my favorite game on Facebook.…

I'm done jumping back and forth from blog to blog ranting about things that are bordering off-topic, so I'll just put it all here.

Some say daydreaming is a curse, others say it's a tool. What I say is that it is what you let it become. In my case, it's become a monster, a completely different, intricate and complex dimension that has mixed and stacked with reality. It has free reign on my memories, dictates how I feel, dictates every damned detail of my life, because I unconsciously…

We are usually told that daydreaming is a waste of time and energy and mental power etc... but the ability to daydream gives you flexibility in your daily lives.

Daydreaming isn’t a waste of time, as we’re often told, but the gateway to Creativity, Problem-Solving and even to the realisation of our Potential.

Let me be the example of this; I might be…

For those who use marijuana do you think it effects you. I use to be a social user and it was fine, now I have become a more frequent user and I feel that it makes me depressive. Instead of daydreaming while high I think about the root of my daydreaming addiction. Also I start to over analyze my daydreams and that gives me anxiety and also it makes me harder on my self for being a "crazy person." Let me know your experience with MD and MJ. Does it effect you at all?

I just found out what MD was in December and was not aware that there were other s like me. I worry that my MD will develop into schizophrenia as a become elderly. Similar to when dementia or Alzheimer patients are confused about which reality they are in and minds are often in a different time period. Will I at some point not recognize the difference between reality and my daydreams or will I believe that my daydreams were once my reality? Please let me know if you have the same fears or if…

I got 2 new tattoos this week!  The first is one honoring our beloved Dr. Cynthia Schupak, whom I call "Mom".  She's been like an angel to me.  The other one is just a little heart on my left pinkie.  I now have 9 and plan to get more.  …

I'm going to talk with a reporter about MD tomorrow evening.  I know this is short notice, but is there anything you'd like me to say to her?  

I'm not sure I'm a classic Maladaptive Daydreamer. I don't make up elaborate stories or characters. I used to, but my daydreams or whatever these states are became repetitive monologues. I'm 33 years old (F) and I've never experienced reciprocated romantic love, although I've been constantly in love since age 14, always with someone who did not return my feelings. My daydreams are scary, basically I'm begging the present love of my life to love/hold/stay with/come back to/make love to me. I…

My life has completely evolved from what it was when I last posted on here almost a year ago. Long story short, I am now sick, physically sick, and have had to accept that I will be for the rest of my life. It's all still very new, and I've had to change my entire life style. However, during this process I had to deal with the real world. I had to focus on my health and life and grades, so there was no time to MD. I think that I've gotten way better at handling it, although somedays I do get…