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I don't want to stop daydreaming

I know I need to stop so I can be like everyone else but I love it, I love doing it in my spare time too but I do it at school for an hour straight at times. I lost all my mates and rather hang up on them and daydream instead of listening to them. I feel unpure and ruined. don't know why I would ever want to though. My life is boring and I have nothing of passion. I'm scared to give it up. Is it really worth trying to get back into reality permanently? I need a good reason to give it up and start getting out of this rut. I can't get motivated

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Comment by Lizzarina on January 20, 2014 at 1:27pm: @lucrezia exactly! I was convinced that maybe it's fulfilling something we feel lacking and maybe were overusing this power. I'm trying to find a different way of living.

Comment by Lizzarina on January 20, 2014 at 1:25pm: @Mirrorgirl I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that, I guess I won't give up completely.

Comment by Lizzarina on January 20, 2014 at 1:23pm: @cordellia thank you, for sharing, you're motivating. I need a goal.

Comment by Lucrezia Duchessa on January 19, 2014 at 5:28pm: "My life is boring and I have nothing of passion."

Story of my life. What do others have that they don't daydream? I don't think we are some special brand of miserable. I'm not a scientist by any stretch of the imagination, but it could be that MDD is a coping mechanism gone out of control. But how to get out of this rut and get into healthier ways of coping?

Comment by mirrorgirl on January 19, 2014 at 2:43pm: I have tried to stop repeatedly. I have thought that maybe I was mentally ill or maybe under some sort of spiritual warfare of some kind. Maybe controlled by demons? I know that when I am under stress, the first thing I want to do is dream. This has caused me to not deal with the current issue at hand like getting a work or school assignment done. Now I am middle aged and if I don't get this under control I will never have the career or husband that I want. When I had a full time job I could not wait to get home from work and put on the head phones an listen to music to dream. I didn't want to hang with my coworkers from work. Just go home and look in the mirror and dream.

Comment by Cordellia Amethyste Rose on January 18, 2014 at 5:50pm: I don't know if it's even possible to stop daydreaming completely. Everyone, even "normal" people daydream sometimes. I don't think you have to give it up completely, but that's your decision. I tried desperately for many years to force myself to stop, but it never worked. I used to get really mad at myself and try and guilt myself into stopping, but that only made it worse. I think that we can have a healthy balance. Daydreaming isn't all bad. I think that if we can learn to control it and still live in the outside world, then we can have even greater lives than if we only lived in one world. If you want to stop or limit it, I think you'll fail if you try to just force yourself to stop. If you run away from it, it'll only get worse. You'll just keep running around, and you'll never be successful. I think the key is to run toward something. Try to focus on filling your life with other things. I've posted many tips along the right side of the main page. Keep trying things until you find out what works for you. It can get better.