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Medicine??

Have anyone seen the psychologist and ask for the medicine??

Are there any medicine that could help us control this MD at all?

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Comment by Isabella on January 25, 2012 at 9:04pm: thank you so much every one!

Comment by Wish Upon A Wish on January 4, 2012 at 1:31am: Apparently some meds for OCD have helped (fluvoxamine)(Opera browser wants to correct that to flamingoes, by the way!!). I'm only going to ask the doctor about it if I'm struggling too much to focus at school this year, and can barely concentrate, or if I do really bad in the mock exams. I personally would rather avoid drugs, and my doctor would rather avoid prescribing or recommending anything, so it works out well, don't you think? But if I do get desperate, in about 6 months or so, then...

By the way, if you are considering trying to get fluvoxamine, here's some side affects and stuff.

http://www.medicinenet.com/fluvoxamine-oral/article.htm

Side affects are the top of page 2.

Comment by Cordellia Amethyste Rose on January 3, 2012 at 8:50am: If you ever do go see a doctor, please take Cynthia's study and the Scientific American Mind article on Maladaptive Daydreaming. Both can be found on the Links page.

Comment by Marcelo on January 3, 2012 at 8:11am: About 7 years ago i went to the doctor and he understood all my symptoms, He said that got other patients with the same issue, but he didn't gave any name for the "illness", he just said that was under study and the medicine would help me to control but not finish with the MD.

He prescribed me sulpiride, it helped me a little bit to control the MD.

In the last years i talked with 4 doctors, 2 of then understood the symptoms and 2 not.

But i think you should go to a good doctor and talk with him, For sure they don't know nothing about the term "Maladaptive daydreaming" but some doctors can understand the symptoms and prescribe something to help you reduce the obsession.

Comment by greyartist on January 3, 2012 at 6:31am: I went and after discribing my symptoms he labeled me bipolar, which I am not. But he put my on Abilify and it did reduce the compulsion to DD but the side effects became too much for me and I am off it now. I hope to just learn to live with my MD, even if it means pretending to have regular emotions.

Comment by Aquarius on January 3, 2012 at 3:48am: @Cordelia - could you share what did help you to control your MD?

Comment by Cordellia Amethyste Rose on January 2, 2012 at 11:44pm: One person in the study showed some improvement with Fluvoxamine. It didn't help me, but it's worth a shot.

Comment by Jenna on January 2, 2012 at 8:45pm: Let me rephrase that. Md is a disorder many doctors haven't heard of.

Comment by Jenna on January 2, 2012 at 8:43pm: Personally no, and MD isn't officially a disorder. So finding medicine would be hard. I've read somewhere that somebody went to the doctor and prescribed to some OCD medicine(Can't remember.). Most doctors haven't heard of it anyways, and may misdiagnosis you with something else, and give you medicine that won't help at all. So I wouldn't exactly expect the doctor to give you medicine for MD. However if you go to the doctor they still might be able to help you.