It's funny to read my old posts about my therapist- I don't recall him ever "encouraging" me to daydream, or ever saying it was healthy, though early on he was more concerned about WHAT I was daydreaming about, and why. I've spent a lot of time discussing with him since then the many things that made me use daydreaming as a coping mechanism.

I really like my therapist. I'm not romantically attracted to him or anything, but he and I ended up having a surprising number of things in…

So I've converted the old MD/Dissociation thread into a more wider scope - a place to discuss old and new studies and research that effect the MD community as a whole. :)

We have the research papers on the "links" page and it seems we're still waiting for the results of Dr Somer's latest study? If anyone has found this let me know please - it was suppose to have been released by now.

I always had a feeling I was 'abnormal' and 'different' but everyone thinks they are, right? So I thought nothing of my daydreaming, until I and a close friend were talking and I told her about my daydreaming for hours on end. She then told me how it wasn't something normal and should see what it was. However she didn't treat me any different. So I did some research and the results were, "Maladaptive daydreaming" I then tried to explain what it felt like to someone whom I wholeheartedly…

So we've all heard the origin stories of growing up with MD, but what about the stories of dealing with MD as an adult? Anyone want to share?

Do we daydream because we feel that we get more meaningful interaction from the characters in our own minds than people in real life? Do we really desire relationships that can touch us to the core? What are your guys' thoughts on this?

So I was in class today listening to music and I entered a "MD-trip" when this song came on and it really upset me that I had to stop myself from "moving" to it. Do you guys have experiences like this?

So there's was this online community I've been a part of for like 23 years (it was the community for a comic I'm way to into and it is tied to my MD). It was a generally good place. We pissed each other off, but everyone got along and were good people.

We had a saint keeping everyone together. And I'm not kidding, one of the nicest people you'd ever meet. I don't think she ever said a unkind word to anyone in her life. She kept everyone together and was kinda our heart (and I know…

Since I left for college, my day dreaming has been confined to one single moleskine notebook. In it, almost exclusively stories and pictures of the Western Union. If you could divide my day dreams up into neat sections, the Western Union is the most recent. Here are some of the pictures for you. Above is the the Steward of Centralia, General Caesar North. The Western Union…

Hi, everyone.  I'm new here.  I'm 55, and two days ago I realized that I've been an addictive daydreamer as long as I can remember.  I'm an ACOA, and the MD probably started as a response to my family environment, but people have been calling me on it (in one way or another) since the beginning, and it's definitely caused me some problems with interpersonal relationships.

I also have long-standing depression (currently responding very well to exercise and diet:  no meds at the moment)…

Hi guys.

This is my first post here.I'm 22 years old and i've been daydreaming ever since from my childhood.I just wanted to ask how do you guys manage to study?i'm having a really hard time at university.i can't focus when i'm in the class or even when i'm trying to study my lessons.i can't concentrate at all on any of them and although i'm not a bad student and i spend a lot of time studying,my grades have never been this low and even i could get expelled from the university due to…

Maladaptive daydreamers enjoy daydreams to an extend that they can not resist the temptation of it,its like an addiction of drug.If you don't take the drug you get a nagging feeling,typical drug addicts flood their circuit with a neurotrasmitter called dopamine which is a neurotransmitter present in regions of the brain that regulate movement, emotion, cognition, motivation, and feelings of pleasure. The overstimulation of this system, which rewards our natural behaviors, produces the…

I have never known about dd until this website. I have done it all my life. People think I'm quiet and shy. I can smile and have conversations at work and home, but no one knows that there are loving people living in my head. 

It is the most wonderful thing in the world to have a family and comfort to go to. I will never let them go. By reading on here I am sure that my childhood was buried. It will stay that way. 

My live has been good and I've worked and have grown kids. My…

I am very fond of using maps to visualize my daydream world down to the very street names. It helps me keep track of where and when my story takes place, and what I could use in later parts of a story. 

(Map of the Kennedian homeland)

Sorry if you cannot read the small black font in the green of the forest, those just point our certain landmarks such as family…

I came up with the idea for an easy shop of things made by members of WM. I'd take a small amount of the profits each person sells, like %10. It could be anything from a painting to sculpture, anything sellable. I dont know if anyone would be interested, though. What do you think?

Does anyone have advice for speaking with family or individual family members about MD?

As you can see I am continuing to analyze myself. Once I've found out about my maladaptive daydreaming, I am trying to observe my emotions and actions. I asked myself "What keeps my mind in real life?". What makes me more interested in reality and my presence here and now?

The answer for me is kind a ironic. It's creative activity, all sorts of it. For example, I get excited by drawing. It makes my mind busy and keeps my mood up. I've always liked to draw, but now I see it as…

The reason why I began to search my condition was that one day I felt dissapointed in my real life. Suddenly, I felt pity of myself because I would never be as successful, as beautiful or charming as I was in my dreams. Then I stopped and realized that I am dreaming my time away instead of making those dreams happen. Instead of doing something which would let me, for example, improve at my work or make me feel beautiful, I just dreamed of time that I am already all of that.

I…