"A little late, but thank you for this reply. I suppose I did not appreciate the difference between "maladaptive" and "immersive" day dreaming."
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How Maladaptive Is It, Really?
Started this discussion. Last reply by NeverPresent Apr 27, 2024. 7 Replies 4 Likes
Lifelong "Maladaptive Daydreamer" here. The whole nine yards; pacing while listening to music for hours and hours while creating extraordinarily complex fictional narratives and worlds in my head.…Continue
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"Very interesting, I've only just found this forum, so I've never spoken to other people with MD. For me it would be easy to say I only have immersive daydreams, because I have a "normal" life, when I'm not daydreaming. But…"
"I feel that my story is quite similar to yours. I do not think that MD actually keeps me from having a normal social life, indeed I go to parties and meet with my friends regularly. I have never really avoided going out just to stay home and…"
"Sorry for my english but i am not an english person. However, I hope that my statement is understandable. I had the same. At a time when I had no friends and was being ridiculed, maladaptive daydreaming became my obsession. But over time, when I…"
"I really relate to this. I've daydreaming as long as I can remember. When I was a kid it didn't seem too unusual. I thought I was just "making believe" like most kids do. But I never grew out of it. I have a few different worlds…"
How Maladaptive Is It, Really?
Lifelong "Maladaptive Daydreamer" here. The whole nine yards; pacing while listening to music for hours and hours while creating extraordinarily complex fictional narratives and worlds in my head. Some of my "worlds" I have been curating for over a decade. But I have never felt that this "dissociative disorder" was pathological or disorderly. It has not remotely held me back in life. I graduated with a doctoral degree at the age of 23, was an internationally published researcher by 24, was…See More
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