What can I do about MD?

[Alana C]

Hi :) I'm fourteen (girl) and I've had MD since I was about 11 (but it could have started earlier),I'm shy and I've been having some pretty bad confidence issues and I've had a tough year. I have only just recently become concerned about this. I'll be constantly weaving fantasy stories in my head with recurring characters and storylines and I'll always be forgetting things or space out in conversations which is really embarrassing. My friends think it's weird that I'm constantly forgetting things and I'm really slow at realising things. I'll always miss the obvious things in everyday life and it takes me longer to understand things and this makes me seem really slow. I'm not dumb, I get good grades and I'm in the extension classes so it's not a learning difficulty, does anyone else have these problems? I'm worried it might be something else. I'm really scared that I'm going to have this for the rest of my life, is it going to get easier, or is it just because I'm a teenager? It's nowhere near as bad as it used to be. I used to run around the house with my earphones on and space out for hours at a time. I think I've gained some control but it's constantly in my head, with whatever I'm doing. I told my mum a few months ago which was a really big step for me and she sympathised but she hasn't said anything about it since which makes me think that she doesn't take me seriously. I'm just feeling really frusterated that I can't get this under control. I just thought I'd share my experience because I don't know what else to do :(. I don't want to go to a therapist because I really want to get this under control myself.

[Simran]

Hey Alana, you're just like me:-)

I also tried talking to my mom about it. She said "it's normal to dream and think about your future because if you don't dream you will be without any ambition"

But this is not what I had meant. I just meant that I DAYDREAM EXCESSIVELY! 

If I was in your place I would have wished that my mom take me to a therapist because I don't have that much self control and cannot control my daydreams specially at this time of the year when my important board exams are fast approaching.

PLEASE DON'T GET COMPLETELY INFLUENCED BY WHAT I SAID. This was my opinion and experience which i shared with you just because I've gone through same situations. BUT YOU KNOW YOURSELF &YOUR SITUATIONS better than anyone else.