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[Edgard]

A few years ago I was diagnosed with an extreme case of ADHD (now I believe it has more to do with MD). The doctor gave my father a list of medications he believed I should take. My father (being a pharmacist and knowing the side effects of the medications) said there was no way I was going to take any of them. He had a talk with me in which he basically told me that I would just have to learn to control it, he even suggested I try meditation.

As I sat there thinking about how to suppress it, when a thought came to mind: “What if instead of suppressing it, I simply let it loose?” I am a student filmmaker and my idea is this; instead of trying to suppress this quality which make me unique, I can learn how to channel it into something productive. I can turn all those endless amounts of daydreams into stories that eventually can become films. It is true Maladaptive Daydreaming can prevent us from being able to carry out our daily task; however, I don't think it has to be a bad thing. Perhaps the trick is just learning how to turn the negative into something positive.

For years I wasn't sure if I was just strange, and I never believe I could find someone else who could understand. Now I know I am not the only one who is like this. I've just joined here, but I am eager to hear the stories of others. 

[Rosethewolf]

Wow... your idea is just like mine. I want to be a writer or a film maker because I can turn my daydreams into a story too

[The1andonlyAbber]

I don't think you can make a book with over 200 characters that are absolutely essential to understanding the story in it. And you can't fit every single detail of a planet's ecosystem into 1 book. :-b But I get what you mean about the multiple story arcs. It's just that the story arcs in my main daydream all take place at the same time and have nothing to do with each other. Maybe I should try making a new daydream that's a tad less intense and involves characters that are 100% original, just so I can write about it.

[Edgard]

I feel you, I got the universe thing going on in my head too. Have you ever heard of a book called "One Hundred Years of Solitude?" it's by an author called Gabrel Garcia Marquez. It is a magical realism novel which story follows multiple generations of a family. This book came to mind upon reading your comment. Now I'm not sure how extensive you wish to make your story, but having overlaping story arcs and characters can be done. It is a great book, if you have a chance you should check it out. It might just inspire you to give it a try.

[The1andonlyAbber]

I'm really good at writing. I want to be an author when I grow up. I want to write a book about my main daydream, but there's just SO many characters (not to mention the fact that many of them are from already existing books and TV shows), SO many different overlapping story arcs, and SO much that has to be explained about the location. I really do have an entire world (literally several planets) stuffed into my head. I want to write about EVERYTHING, but I can't without watering stuff down (which I am NOT willing to do). So instead I keep sketchbooks of drawings of certain significant things about the location of my daydreams. I can't draw everything (I've got EVERYTHING about these planets planned out, even the types of insects that live on the main planet, which is Earth-like), but it makes me feel so much better that at least a little bit of the universe inside my mind is down on paper.

[Edgard]

Thanks. I'm also a writer and I have found that it is next to impossible to write and Daydream at the same time. Also taking my daydream from my mind to paper is extremely difficult, there is a lot that is lost in the process of having to put it into words (especially because all my daydreams have heavy visual). What helps me is that I let my mind wonder in day dream for however long I need, only stopping every now and then to write down brief key concepts. I will then repeat my day dream over and over again until I know it by heart. Afterwards I can sit down and write, without day dreaming, and by this point I know my daydream so well that I don't need to day dream as a write. I will also have those key concepts I wrote down as a reference in case I need them.

But this is just something that works for me, everybody is different and I hope you find what works for you. I wish you luck in your writing.

[Queen Dopamine]

I encourage you to channel your creative, ever-active mind into working on productions or stories or films, whatever you're inspired to do. 

I'm not trying to deflate you in any way, but I'm going to share with you my experience: I'm a writer, and also, I dabble very amateurishly with video editing (making my own videos on my own crap webcam and editing them with WMM). I recently posted a blog about a video I made. Whenever I do these videos, I get so hyper-obsessed with them, I hardly even daydream. It's trading one obsession with another, but hey, at least it's for good right? 

Unfortunately, I have less success with writing because I try to convey my storylines into words, and while it is possible, it is a challenge that requires way more concentration and thought than actually just daydreaming it would be. Whereas doing videos doesn't relate at all to my daydreams, or if it does, it's so mildly that the urge to live out a particular fantasy just by working on a video only motivates me to try harder to finish a video! I hope this is the success you find. :) 

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