Hello everyone!

[Ignacia]

Hi, I'm new here. Only found out about MD this Tuesday.  I think I might have it.

I mean, I'm sure I've displayed all these symptoms before. Mm, scratch all that I´m almost sure I have it. When I read all of those descriptions I recognized myself in a way that I didn't expect. Maybe it's just that I don't feel it´s so bad to me as it is in others. But then, I've grown up in loving family and I´ve never lived alone, my mother would never let me lay in bed an entire day without speaking to anyone.

Where I think the daydreams have affected me is in the fact that I dont have too many close friends, and the ones I have I can spend months without talking to them and dont really miss them that much, because well, sometimes I feel like I dont need them. There, I said it. That can't be good, right? And I do love my friends. Luckily for me, all of them are introverts, so we forgive each other easily about that kind of stuff.

I remember that the daydreams started when I was about 11 - 12. I think I had done it before too, but my sister and I always played the kind of games were you have to imagine everything, always with a story, so when I was younger I think it was more like "playing alone". But around eleven Istarted doing it consciously. I remember I would sneak to the front garden of my grandparents house during family gatherings, when nobody else was there, and just jump around or over the stairs, running around imaginig that I was a character in a TV show. Some times I could be playing with an old basketball too.

When I was older, I started feeling the need to write all these things, but I didn't dare because it would be embarrasing if someone else read it. When I was like 16, I started doing research in the internet to feed the daydreams too. I also have a lot of notebooks filled with lists and character descriptions too. I wanted to write, but I couldn't do it because I didn't have a plot, only characters and scenes.  I spended a lot of time daydreaming in my bed before falling asleep, and then when I woke up. I have to admit that I still try to do that. Sometimes when I go to bed I estimate that I want to spend an hour  daydreaming so I go to bed early. And  sometimes I set the alarm to wake up half an hour earlier, because I want to daydream (although that one almost never works, haha). There are periods were I sleep badly, waking up several times in the night, because I want to daydream, and then fall asleep again.

Well, there's more things I would like to comment, but this post is getting waaay too long, so I better stop the rambling! And I'm sorry if there's spelling/grammar mistakes, english is not my first language!

So, what do you think? Do you think I have MD?

[Nicola Wallace]

Oh my gosh i cant believe how similar your MD sounds to mine. Everything you said about your friends, going to bed and family life.

I like to know there is someone else liek me, who definitely has MD but had a loving, uneventful upbringing and dydreaming doesn't 'seriously' affect them.

Glad you've found this site, and thanks for writing that :)

[Annie]

Yeah, I really think you do have Maladaptive Daydreaming. Not only do you match all the symptoms but you also match all mine! I also used to play with my brother like that. We used to sit under the covers and just imagine things. Only difference was as we grew older I never stopped this imagination. It instead grew stronger.

I used to get up very early in the morning got to my living room and put on my earphones and just daydream with music. But I also paced and rocked as well which was very embarrassing, especially when someone caught me, i of course always used to lie saying I was testing out the couch. :/ I began to isolate myself to the only place where no one would bother me and well, the only door with a lock. My bathroom, thats right weird place huh.

But there no one saw my weird movements, of course at times they would always complain why I always took so long in the restroom, haha! :D you could just imagine what my response was......massive d#($*@*hrea!!!!!

Anyways yeah, I also live with a family that is very caring. I wont say loving because they always fight! Like everyday, and my dad is sort of controlling so i never had many close friends. So, i guess maybe thats why i daydream, to create my own friends and escape from the environment I was stuck in  with my dysfunctional family.

But sweety, I sugest you try to limit your daydreaming if it starts to interfier with your sleep. You dont want to end up like me....5 years of sleep deprivation! o_O

[Zoe]

I think when you have MD, you sort of already know that you have a problem. Like I always knew that I daydreamed an abnormal amount, I thought I was just weird, for me researching it kind of just confirmed what I already knew. And you don't have to display all the symptoms that are stated, they are just some things some people say they do whilst DDing.