I love English. I'm doing it for my degree and I could not be happier with it, however, I recently discovered that my teacher lives in the same apartment complex as me... Not that bad, I can live with that, the problem comes when I'm day dreaming and he sees me murmuring to myself and writhing my fingers. 

A bit of background, my teacher and I have gotten along amazingly, we've really hit it off and he's one of the best teachers I've ever had. After he saw me murmuring and writhing my…

Hello!

It's been a very long time since I posted on here. Long story short, my life almost ended last year after a couple of medical problems. During the hospital stays and endless "sitting in bed" I used MD to cope. 

Now I'm in college. I've been here for about 3 months, and I love it! I was so concerned about my MD problems. Living with a roomate, and being around people constantly, it scared me. I thought that it would control my life and wouldn't be social. Now- I…

Does anyone else have this where every once in a while, like perhaps once in a few months, my attachment to my characters, the settings, and stories, and their lives become intense. It's this... sickly feeling, like I'm on the verge of tearing up and I just HAVE to indulge in it hardcore. Find all the media related to my characters, listen to all the right songs etc.. It's like looking at a super beautiful painting with raw emotion, or a beautiful song. I'm writing this because I'm going…

Unfortunately, when I told my therapist about my daydreams more likely to be a second life in my mind, she didn't take me serious. She simply passed on to another topic. But I think I have to explain things further next time, e.g. crying when my main character experiences some bad stuff, laughing and even talking to myself while daydreaming. I will print out some information about MD and show my therapist.

Sometimes I am in control of my MD but as soon as I play one video game (since…

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…

The line between reality and something else. I can tell when my illness is getting worse. Maladaptive Daydreaming Disorder is an illness, not an excuse to waste your life fantasizing about what you will never have the will to try. But to me it is most diffidently an illness. Does the depression come from the worsening MDD or does it cause the depression? I don’t know. But when you walk outside and the…

I've always wondered why I daydream so much. I've been daydreaming ever since I was about seven I think. There hasn't been any horrible trauma or any huge event in my life at that time that has caused be to become addicted to daydreaming. I wonder if maybe there is something in my genetics that makes me do this. It isn't a mechanism to deal with boredom or past trauma, my life is busy and I have things to do. I love the way I live except my chronic depression and maladaptive daydreaming are…

I have multiple storylines (I guess you could call them) going on with characters I took from a show I used to watch when I was younger. I don't even watch the show anymore but I got so attached to the characters I created that I couldn't let them go as I got older. It's gotten so bad, I think about the characters as soon as I wake up and then throughout the day at random times and always at night sometimes for hours before going to bed. 

I've also started developing a new type of DD…

First of all, thanks a lot to Cordellia Amethyste Rose for creating this website. It has given me a lot of

courage to finally know what was different about me and that there are more people like me somewhere else.

I've had MD at least since I was 12 years old and now I feel my entire life is on debris: I've yet to finish my studies, almost no work experience, very few (real) friends and need economic help from my parents. While it is true that a great deal of these troubles are…

I know that having MD you probably have some sort of repetitive movement that you do. Mine is HANDS DOWN rocking my head!! I've done it since I could remember. I remember being young and my parents thinking I was crazy and taking me to a doctor. I think I was so young that I didn't realize that I was daydreaming. "Rocking" my head also gets me to concentrate super well. In school I would rock my head at my desk and do schoolwork at the same time and never got dizzy. I was always super…

I don't know why it is, but my Maladaptive Daydreaming seems to have become more active lately. I think there is a good link between it and the events that are going on in my life. I've been having issues with my girlfriend lately and I'm scared about university. I am desperately trying to spend time with my family but sometimes it seems like they aren't fussed to which I'm guessing is fuelling my MD.

Tonight I'm particularly sad. I don't know why I've taken this to heart…

I'm 15 and I've been daydreaming for about two years I think.  I remember the first time I really got submerged in a daydream how awesome it felt.  I didn't have many friends at the time so I made up my own and for once I felt accepted, even if it was only in my dream world.  I actually had multiple different daydream realms that I made..I think I had up to four at one point.  But I think that got kind of overwhelming for me so now I only have one really intricate…

Hi everyone, I been floating around this site since I signed up a few days ago and it's fascinating to find so many heavy day dreamers like myself. I have seen this site before but only now I decided to engage myself to share. Got to say I enjoy reading your stories and understand all the Maladapative Daydreaming issues completely. Totally on board with you. 

But I noticed that most (not all) the of content posted by members on the site are kind of on the negative spectrum of MD.…

Hi, MDers.

I'm Jennifer, and I'm 16 years old. I've been struggling with MD for years.

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I've noticed I’ve had more anxiety than my peers for most of my life.

I've have these speech problems and I believe it has something to do with how inflamed or swollen my tongue is.  I take pills with magnesium and vitamins C-D to relieve the inflammation and it usually helps a lot.  I think the cause is do too stress being caused by  my MD.

Hello! I haven't really posted recently, but I figured it was time to share about my Book. 

So, I'm a high school student that's had MD my entire life. No one knows, and no one ever will. For a long time, I didn't know what to do. But in 7th grade I started day dreaming about this scene. I thought it was cool and wrote it down. Now, it's a 200 paged novel that comes out in August. 

But it wasn't that simple. Getting myself to really dedicate my time to this took about a year.…

Hello! Okay, so I've recently gotten a Pedometer on my phone. It's just an app that I downloaded because I wanted to know how many steps I took when I was in "MD" mode. I'm always pacing when I day dream, so it was interesting to find out that I take about 2000-3000 steps!!! Isn't that crazy! That burns like 300 calories!  

Have any of you guys tried this? 

I've never done anything like this (blogged) so here it goes.  -deep breath-

Hello members, I'm Kristen and that's as far as my name as your going to get.  I have been call numerous other names online like Amethly, A.V.Frienday, S.V Rae, and Ivan.  I'm not legally an adult but I know I'm far from a child or an adolescent in quit a few aspects.  Up…