Hi! I'm the webmaster at http://www.daydreamingdisorder.webs.com/

I check on this site every so often, and I remember reading that someone was going to try Vloging about Maladaptive Daydreaming. If anyone has done that, or has set up some other kind of video, I will look at it and may post a link or embed that on my site (if I can figure out exactly how to do it!) Please let me know if someone does start…

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This is one that I had several months ago, but just haven't taken the time to write the whole thing down. Actually I had started it, but there was just too much detail and it was taking too long. So instead I have written a brief summary of the story.…



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Ive been researching guys and there some massive likeness to SPD.....

"Schizoid individuals are also prone to developing pathological reliance on fantasizing activity as concomitant with their withdrawal from the world. Viewed in this fashion, fantasy constitutes a core component of the self-in-exile"

Klein- Disorders of The Self: New Therapeutic Horizons, Brunner and Mazel (1995) p.…

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Is there ever going to be seen as “normal” and acceptable to be alone? This is something I’ve had to deal with, and with my 30^th approaching I need to figure out how to not be ashamed of the fact that I have

no friends or family. People always make the assumption that a person has

such things & the looks they give if/when you dare to let it slip that you

don’t are just unreal. In professional settings, things like references

&…

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I'm not going to lie, I'm extremely nervous to open up about my disorder, because I feel like a freak. I have been researching on and off for the past year on MD but only recently found all of the information in great detail and I KNOW now that I have it. I guess I just want to get to know everybody and find out what their worlds are like compared to mine.

--BAM

I was encouraged by a friend to check out this site and share my experiences, partially for the purposes of studying this type of daydreaming. My friend and I both wonder if there are others like me - because when I daydream, I am not in my fantasies. Not ever. They are always focused on pairings based in slash fiction. I have a few different pairings I cycle through - I'll stay with one couple for days, weeks, months... then switch to another. I am constantly spinning stories in my head.…

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There is no logical way to tell when Grendel’s angry. He wiggles, claws, and bites my hand, but if I dare leave him alone he whines like he’s dying a slow, horrible death. So, I end up bent over petting
him behind the trash while he bites my hand & purrs loudly enough to wake
the dead. Meanwhile, Mia climbs on my shoulders and farts. Typical
afternoon.

This is just from an email I sent to my doc. I think there are some interesting connections here. Continue

Hi, guys.



I know it seems like answers may be slow in coming. I've been researching this for over 3 years, so BELIEVE me I understand. I really want to help us all in any way I can. I wish I knew how. I'm very new to having a site with members, so please tell me if you'd like me to do anything. Is there something you'd like me to try and add to this site? Anything you'd like me to do at all? I'm really open to suggestion & will look into every idea.



What I am doing is… Continue

I would never give this up. Although there were a few times that I wanted to really badly. The first time I wanted it to go away, I wasn't even sure what it was, but I knew my thoughts and feelings weren't normal. I've always struggled with this double identity. There has always been this part of me that wanted to live a 'normal' life where I get an education, have a successful job, get married, have children, buy a house, save for retirement, have a merry life with lots of friends... and then… Continue

I'm 27 years old and I've lived part of my life in an alternate reality for as long as I can remember. When I was young I would imagine real life scenerios that I wanted to play out in real life, but very often never had the courage to do so. In my mind I was very outspoken and laid back and everything that I wanted to say would flow out naturally. In reality I was very quiet and what I spoke was without fluidity. I was always baffled that I couldn't mimic to the outside what was in my head.… Continue

I am so happy I found this site. I thought I was the only one.

My daydreaming adventures started early. Like most children I imagined a world in which I was important, special, needed -- but my daydreams never included magic: no flying cars, no wizards wand. For the most part I would say that I created, in my mind, a world much like the one outside with subtle variances. I became quite good at imagining.



At puberty my daydreaming started to pay off. My flights of fancy had led me to books which expanded my vocabulary and the time spent just… Continue

I Haven't really fantasized much this weekend at all. I didn't really do it much last week either. I like this blog section because I'm thinking it will be good for me to write about my daydreaming. I have a hard time knowing when/why I daydream more or what sets it off. This weekend I just hung around most of the time, just like every other weekend. Did some xmas shopping with my bf, went out to eat, going out to eat again tonight. I guess I overall felt pretty good about life, excited about… Continue

I've been living in a fantasy world for all my life. I'm 29 years old, and my life is nowhere near normal.

On the outside I'm quiet, creative, somewhat abrasive, contradictory, emotional, loving, silly, and just a little odd.

On the inside is a secret world that could rival that of any fantasy fiction novelist. I've thought about writing it down, but the details are too intricate. I wouldn't know where to begin.

Besides, halfway through I'd start daydreaming again.

On the… Continue