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.



My…

I have my exams in a month. I feel like I could have achieved so much more if it werent for MD. When I was in school at the peak of MD I used to get blackouts and migraines and yet I would not be able to stop daydreaming. I was a class topper in school until MD hit. It all started so innocently until it completely dominated my mind and hence my life. And then my grades started to progressively drop until in 8th grade I got a zero in my math mid term exam. I had never in my life gotten a zero…

Good Morning, My name is Alexis. 

Let me start from the beginning of my journey through MD. When I was born I had a father who was addicted to several drugs, alcohol, and very abusive due to fathers actions. I was removed from my home at age 2 due to my mom not being able to take care of herself and us because of my father. I was moved to a very kind foster home in which I only lived there for a couple of months. I am still in touch with them. My second home was super abusive and I…

Hi, our names are Hannah Johnson and Jessica Davis, and we are conducting a research project under the supervision of Dr Michael Hough of the University of Technology Sydney for our degree (Master of Clinical Psychology).

Our research project is titled “The role of imagination and fantasy for psychological health” and seeks to investigate the relationship between greater involvement in fantasy and psychological health, as this will…

 Hello everyone.

My name is Priyanka, I am 17 years old and my life has considerably been fucked up.

 I had my end-of-term examinations and these are very important as my parents want me to study in a good college so I cannot be anything less than a straight-A student.

But then I started grooving to music late in the night, (as its the only the only time you can do weird stuff without anyone's judgement) as I had this epic daydream that I JUST wanted to wrap up.…

Boa noite, após um comentário aqui no site muitas pessoas me procuraram para conversar e tive contato com várias histórias interessantes. Acho que por sermos tão inspirados e termos uma certa…

so I have already mentioned about the sudden negative daydreams I experience while I hold in pee , I always thought that they were meaningless and had no basis but then after pondering over it I realized they are not .

so here is what happens in my negative daydreams I don’t even actively decide what happens it just comes into play,

(so it’s always that am a frail and meak child with bones peeking through my skin who is being sexually,  verbally and physically…

I have been unbelievably busy (barely any time for daydreaming lol). I know there are several things I need to respond to but I'm still in the middle of things (that I can't wait to write about). So I'm just making a quick blog post to say I haven't gone anywhere : ) And I'm so excited to read what's been posted since I got so busy!

I can't dance.

Never could. I f*ck up the macarena y'all. I just can't dance. I canNOT twerk; I can't stay on beat. I can body roll and just vibe in place lol, but that's about it.

I also am not great with rights and lefts. Simple addition and subtraction; I'm a calculus tutor. AND operatic soprano- great voice (if I do say so myself); bad at karaoke, like horsesh*t. Maybe one day. My point is, I think I'm like, dyslexic but for beats and cardinal directions. It…

Hi, my name is Elaine, I just started posting today, and just read a suggestion that made me think of one of my own.

An older user suggested basically that there should be a commonly accepted age limit to daydreaming, which would be 25. I see the logic, but I think ultimately this user just picked that number arbitrarily for the year he thought that he could've/should've turned his life around.

He was last active in 2021, and who knows if he'll ever visit…