Welcome to my island. You’re on a beach. The sand is golden, the still sea, rich with light blues, greens and turquoises; it’s shallow enough to walk through. The beach is small, twenty or thirty yards, perhaps. My own private island. Behind the beach is the towering cliff face of a plateau. Atop the plateau is a lush field of soft, springy grass with a few flowers hither and thither. The plateau divides the islands up into sections, each with its own…

Along with MD, I've been noticing other things about me. For example, this has been going on ever since I was young. I would be obsessed with a certain topic for a month or two, and along with wasting my time daydreaming, I would spend hours researching about that topic. This phase will typically last for a month or more and at times my dds might also be based on this theme. The various topics that I've been obsessed with are psychology and different disorders especially MD, the…

Prolouge:“ Kindness is the lanuague which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”-Mark Twain

Woosh! The room was rather in a puzzling state and I for all I could do was stare in an awe-struck trance at the glowing and shining of the lights. I had just simply pranced in to find a cascade of ruby, turquoise, and gold circles flying around the room. The way the lights circled around the room was in a random non-particular way that just flopped around everywhere. Never once had I…

I do have the symptoms of MDD, but I must admit that I think MDD is a symptom of other mental illnesses like Anxeity, Schziphrenia, ADHD, and possibly aspergers. I think in my case it is anxiety because most of my MDD's are negative thoughts that overcome my mind and my body is overwhelmed and acts out these thoughts. When I was younger I would get caught talking to myself, so as a cure I would only talk to my self when I was walking through the neighborhood thinking no one would notice. Now…

I daydream about real people. Sometimes, I make up a person, but that is usually to enhance my story line. I have been DD about a certain person for some time now, and in the last few days I have found myself changing to another person, but that person is "somewhat"connected to the other person. I know the first person, but haven't seen them in a very long time, but I have only seen pictures of this next person. I swear, I think I am losing my mind. It's almost like I am obsessed with all…

The following was emailed to me from Jayne Bigelsen:

                  NEW STUDY ON MALADAPTIVE DAYDREAMING





Researchers from Fordham University (Jayne Bigelsen, Jonathan

Lehrfeld) and the University of Haifa (Eli Somer, who coined the term

Maladaptive Daydreaming (MD)) have joined forces to launch a new study on MD.   We are now ready to begin data collection!



This will be the largest study on MD to date. Our goals include

creating a…

I haven't been on this site for very long, but it seems like most people daydream of a better life, or of being better. Some have an idealised version of themselves, a dream crush, or both. I can see why that's addicting, living inside an amazing world with amazing people.

My daydreams aren't like that. I have no idealised version of myself, no better life, and no dream crush. The easiest way to describe my daydreams is dark. Every daydream I have is filled with violence, betrayal,…

I really am surprised to find this site I have suffered from this problem along time as well since childhood, but even worse when I day dreamed my mouth would move in real life when I was talking to someone in my daydream, this was very embrassing because people would notice. I am 25 and I have finally mastered to day dream without my lips moving. recently my day dreams have been evolved around this new job i started in my actual real life its a really good job too.…

Okay......many people on this site have suggested a few things to me to try out myself to stop MD. but its an extremely difficult task. I think a therapy would be much more effective. So here are a few questions, answers to which solve my doubts.

1. Is there a therapy available for MD?
2. MD is not an officially recognized disorder. At least I don't think doctors in India know about it. Will the doctor be able to understand what I'm going through and give me proper treatment?…

   I was always away from making money than making a life of worth.But DD ing made me to reach that position very slow.i'm a self taught  visual artist,thinking that it is part of life.life is a beautiful dream,it changes every new moments.Time helps us being creative.I love life and being creative is  my passion,in fact  it is my spirituality.Art galleries rejected me not because of less creative but i'm less aggressive to make a series of work at a time.but i know as a creative…

I have an appointment monday with a different councilor/therapist. I'm not sure if I should bring up MD or just describe my symptoms. I am trying to concentrate on what I want to achieve. I want more control of my thoughts, less depression, more real emotions. I guess I'm asking allot. I just hope he takes me seriously. The last one totally dismissed everything I told her about the MD symptoms.

Hello!

I am 16 years old, a girl and I am interested in many different topics. I can't live without music, I enjoy dancing and deeply love most forms of art. I think they add color to life, being one of the things that make living much more than simply existing for the sake of survival. I have always enjoyed litherature, especially sci-fi and fantasy, thrilling novels. But now I look for the deeper meaning in the story too. I enjoy deep thinking, philosophical discussions, asking big…

I fear to love and get hurt, I fear to trust and be betrayed.

I fear not to love and have no-one who care for me

I fear to be alone and I fear to meet people.

I fear to live and I fear not to be alive.

I fear pain and I fear happiness.

For happiness is having something you can lose,

Love is having someone who can let you down.

In the stronghold of my fantasy I have nothing to fear.  

I know who I can trust and will never let me…

I'm a 27 y/o female with major depression, anxiety an god knows what else since for years I was too scared of getting locked up for an extended period of time if I said everything I felt an did.  I'm pretty sure I have avoidant personality disorder since whenever I read about it its like reading about me, I am certain I have maladaptive daydreaming too.  I've been doing since I could remember.  Why make friends when they'll probably just make fun of me, an in my mind I can be the popular kid…

   I am from India , suffering from MD from around 5 years, In the beginning i never thought that such thing like MD exists... I just thought its normal to self talk or think deeply... I used to think that i am a deep thinker so i think endlessly or some times talk endlessly... but later on it started increasing so much that it affected my life very very badly... it used to consume all my time and i did nothing except day dreaming... I used to get late to college and every day i was…