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Maladaptive Daydreaming: where wild minds come to rest

tumblr post about maladaptive daydreaming.

i'm sure a lot of you know about tumblr. but in case you don't, it's a blogging website.

i have a tumblr, and i track the tag "maladaptive daydreaming". today, it said there was a new post in the tag, so i clicked it, and i found this.

http://evilminds.tumblr.com/post/16414461557/maladaptive-daydreamin...

that post has 103 notes. 103. just because i was curious, i looked at some of them. and there are a lot of people reblogging it saying "omg i totally have this!!!!!1" and "i'm not alone omg!!!!"

so either maladaptive daydreaming is more common than we think, and we're not that special, or people are just idiots and they think that because they daydream sometimes, they have MD.

i'll be honest, when i saw that many people reblogging it, i got a little angry and thought, they don't even know what having MD is like. you can't control your daydreaming, it just happens, and it's so addicting. but then i thought... maybe they do have MD. maybe everyone daydreams like we do, they just think it's normal and don't bother to google it and find out what it is.

i don't know.

what are your thoughts on this?

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Comment by Destiny Lund on January 30, 2012 at 10:02pm: Trust me, at least most of them are being ignorant about it. I've brought up the disorder to many of my friends & it's always the same story. They think that just because they daydream somewhat often that they have it. What they don't realize is that daydreaming with MDD is SO extreme & there are multiple symptoms, not just daydreaming & that the daydreaming a lot of times affects you negatively because it consumes your entire life. So many people these days are like, "I have this, I have that, OH I have this too" when they only have a few of the symptoms or the symptoms aren't drastic in the slightest. It's sickening. It overshadows the people who actually have issues with it & need some help. :-/

Comment by Boogman on January 30, 2012 at 4:15pm: "maybe everyone daydreams like we do, they just think it's normal and don't bother to google it and find out what it is."

For me, it was like this. Extreme daydreaming was just apart of my life. Of course it happens all the time, and I thought it was strange and never spoke about it, but it rarely effected me in maladaptive ways. Because of this, it was VERY difficult to Google anything about it, and took me a week of searching to finally figure out what it was called.

Comment by Kirsty Amhert on January 29, 2012 at 10:09pm: I think it's a combination of both.

Not to mention that Tumblr is crawling with people who are in fan communities, and people with MD tend to track things they are fans of because more often than not, those people end up in their daydreams. It would make sense for a lot of them to be there.

Any time something new (as in newly acknowledged) shows up, tons of people flock to it because they want to be some kind of special snowflake.

Comment by Ellie Hale on January 29, 2012 at 8:56pm: MD is way more common than i thought. Maybe we should make a tumblr blog about MD to be able to make people aware of it? Since most doctors haven't even heard of it?

Comment by greyartist on January 27, 2012 at 7:55am: Maybe it's becoming more common, some sort of enviromental cause? I think when you really have it you do seek out information. When I developed it I first talked to my doctor who sent me to a pschiatrist and a councilor, both missunderstood my uncontrollable DDs with intrusive thoughts and labeled me bipolar. I am not. I then started doing internet serches and found this site, it was a real "thank God I'm not crazy" moment. But before I developed it if I had read the info here I would not have thought I had it, but when you do have it.....you know something's not normal.

Comment by Jenna on January 26, 2012 at 2:26pm: Hmm my friend at first when I told her thought she had it. She doesn't, but every once in a while at school she seems to show symptoms. Like she will zone out for 2 mins and move a eraser grippe up and down her finger and won't notice anything. Even when I steal her pencil, poke her, and say her name. It's weird, but she doesn't do this often.Everyone dds, but I don't think many of the people on there really understand what MD means. They might just zone out like my friend sometimes, and think its MD.