Probably this fantasy boyfriend of mine came about from years of feeling alienated and lonely. I also felt a deep lack of intimacy in most of my relationships so I spent more time in my head with this fantasy boyfriend instead of reaching out to real people. 

I've been doing this for years. Anyone have any advice on how to stop daydreaming about him? 

Usually it happens when I'm bored at work and especially at night before I go to bed. 

When I first found out I had MD a few years ago, I was incredibly pissed off and upset. I felt like I was literally daydreaming my whole life away. 

I don't really know what happened since then and now, but I've come to realize that my MD has been a good thing. Whenever I get upset, I daydream for an hour or so and afterwards I feel so much more refreshed, happy, and energized for the rest of my day. 

Whenever I feel restless or stressed out, my daydreams have honestly been…

Didn't do any exercise today, but instead I went shopping and found some nice clothes.

I know I have too many clothes already (whoops...), but I find wearing something new makes me feel better--like I've changed on the inside too somehow, even though I kind of haven't.

When I was trying on the clothes though, there was a voice at the back of my head saying "This next school year will be much better than last year." And I know this isn't the type of thought that…

I went for a morning jog today as I had planned to. I only ran for about five minutes, but that's okay: My goal was to get out the front door and do some form of exercise; not break the world record for longest sprint. 

I can't say I've been that productive since then. I've definitely spent less time daydreaming and getting more involved with my friends. I've made plans to see two of my friends next week. And I'm going to try to get in touch with my friend overseas for a skype…

Unlike most people, I've pretty much pinpointed the whole reason I daydream in the first place. It's because I want to escape reality. I never ever daydream during the summer or when I have free time or when I'm away from people or when I'm on a vacation. I daydream when I can't afford to--when I have a deadline to meet, when I have people to talk to, when I'm right in the middle of my own…

So the other day I was fed up with daydreaming and decided I needed some answers to clear all the clutter in my head. 

So I went to go see a therapist. Except that she wasn't real and she was just another made-up character in my head. In fact, she had her own made-up little office and made-up desk and I sat there in my daydream talking to her about my daydreams. 

And this actually helped me gain some insight into my daydreams (why I feel compelled to daydream,…

Just found these symptoms on Wikipedia under the "Avoidant Personality Disorder". And I'm just genuinely curious as to how you guys feel about the following characteristics because I feel like I have pretty much all of them. 

• Hypersensitivity to rejection/criticism
• Self-imposed …

WARNING: LONG ENTRY IS LONG. I DON'T KNOW WHY I WROTE SO MUCH. AND I'M NOT YELLING AT YOU, I JUST REALLY LIKE ALL CAPS. 

I've decided to start blogging/logging about the progress of stopping my MD. 

None of you obviously have to read this, but I figured since this was a community of people with MD, it seemed appropriate to dump my brain here. 

It's basically to help me figure out when and why I MD and how I can stop it in the…

I've never told anyone that I have MD and I don't really plan to. I'm more inclined to let people think I have OCD or ADD instead :P 

But whenever my classmates find out that I haven't started on an assignment or that I'm really behind on a project, they always say things like "You're only that far?? What have you been doing with all that time?". And I honestly don't have anything to say. It's not like I can tell them that I was away visiting my created fantasy world for hours and…

I'm not sure if I can articulate exactly what this is, but I figured there might be a chance someone out there has it. 

Basically, whenever something good or exciting in happening in my real life, I feel the need to "record" it somehow. To keep that memory safe so that other people can see it. I'll usually clap my hands when something interesting is happening that I want to "record". It's this weird compulsive thing that I do and when I was younger, I'd even do it public.…

I'm not sure if other people can relate to this, but I feel like I'm stuck in an inescapable cycle with my MD. 

I was always an ambitious kid when I was young and whenever I didn't accomplish what I wanted I would get depressed. And then I would daydream about what I would have liked to happened to cope with it. But then I would realize that it was just a daydream and not a reality, which would make me even more depressed so I'd daydream about something else to cope with that…