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Maladaptive Daydreaming: where wild minds come to rest

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It started in early childhood aged about 6 but I remember a specifically slipping into a deeper more involved version one day watching a children’s drama aged 8, everything since then has just evolved – beyond recognition. There was certainly my fair share of trauma in my family during these early years, My dad was mentally ill, my mum lived with a burden heavier than her young years should have had to handle. I had at the time no brothers or sisters and only one friend.

She fostered in me creativity natural to her as a wonderful artists herself, the only thing she could never teach me was self-publicity. I could see she worried, she noticed I spent allot of time in my own world so I became more secretive about the process fearing especially in my teenage years that I would be rejected for my abnormality, not just my mum but in school also. I have never told a soul I spend 70% of my time in my own world.

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Comment by rainydaydreams on February 2, 2012 at 3:31pm: sorry i missunderstood that about your mum, i have no idea what kind of condition my dad had as his family didn't want to talk about it it was pretty bad whatever it was. The same people have told me it both was and wasn't schizophrenia. Times wern't all that bad, well there were some good memories which I have choosen to remember.

Btw u proberbly can tell from the avatar but i origional posted as elansing, I choose to change my name to what i usually use online.

also went and changed my name on you mid conversation

Comment by greyartist on February 2, 2012 at 12:38pm: I'm sorry to hear that. I hope your memories are good ones. I never knew my dad sane, what he was like before his breakdown in the navy. He had bad schizophrenia, would sit around and talk to people not there. I don't think my mom had MD, just avoided the situation, us kids, my dad, the whole thing. She just stayed gone.

Comment by rainydaydreams on February 2, 2012 at 6:29am: I never saw my dad after turning 10 but still heard from him he spent allot of time in hospital and for along time much of my DD was based their with him; he took his life when I was 15. I still remember enough to know what impacted my life the most, it's funny the things you remember, symbolic things that stick with you.

Sound like your mum has her own experiences of MD too.

Comment by greyartist on February 2, 2012 at 5:56am: Hey Elansing, you're the first person I have found that could begin to understand what it is like to have a mentally ill parent. my dad was mentally ill as well. But it sounds like you had a good relationship with your mom, thats good. My mom pretty much went into her own world when not working, we only saw her in the morning before school.