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Writing My Anatomy Report on MD

I have to do a report on a disorder or disease in my family. I was going to do it on Depression, so that I could interview my mom, but in light of recent events, I decided I would rather not interview her.

So I've decided to do a disorder that affects myself. Cordellia if you could give me some good web pages or references for the discovery and study of MD, I would be very greatful. :)

This will be very weird, considering I haven't told anyone but two people about my daydreaming, and now I'll be sharing it all with my Anatomy instructor, but who cares, right? I'm graduating in 2 months anyways.

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Comment by Creator on March 27, 2011 at 6:11pm: Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!

I'll definitely be using all of these links and things, thanks so much!

Yes, I'll be messaging you more about this later probably haha. Totally will let you read it when I'm done.:)

Comment by Cordellia Amethyste Rose on March 27, 2011 at 6:08pm: This sounds like a fun project! I'll get you some links. Let me know if they don't work.

The guy who coined the term's name is Dr. Eli Somer. He studied 6 people & thought MD was caused by trauma. Of course, we've long since found otherwise. It was an important start, though.

http://somer.co.il/articles/2002Malaptdaydr.contemp.psych.pdf

Also, look up work on daydreaming by Dr. Klinger. I don't have that link, but I'm sure you can find some stuff on him.

Here are Cynthia's preliminary findings:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/20700187/Daydreamers-Anonymous-Prelim-Fin...

She's the doc who's currently studying it, and she has a lot of participants. I'm sure she'd be happy to answer a few questions for you. Her study is ongoing. Her email is cschupak@aol.com

Also, you might get the March issue of Scientific American Mind. It has an article about daydreaming that I was quoted in. It mentions this site. :) I went ahead & posted the article here:

http://www.box.net/files#/files/0/f/0/1/f_669058644

You can always use examples from this site & the Yahoo forum perhaps, to show a human aspect of it. Those are all the links I can find, but I'm sure you can find more. That should get you started. Please feel free to message me if I can help any more, ok? Good luck on your paper! I'd love to read it when you're done. :)