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Comment by Casey on April 11, 2011 at 12:36pm

So inspiring. Thanks for posting this.

 

Comment by Ellen on February 11, 2011 at 10:56pm

Amen!  I have a personal theory (based on no psychological expertise, just personal experience) that all of these psychological conditions are on a sliding scale, ranging from super-normal to a severe manifestation of the condition, and every individual is somewhere on the scale.  I have mild symptoms of OCD, ADD, Social Avoidance, and dyslexia, but none of these are to the extent that they would merit an official diagnosis or require treatment.  These are not diseases like a bacterial infection or a virus where they can do a test and tell definitively whether or not the disease is there.  These are mental conditions, adjectives, characteristics that are probably present in almost everyone's brains to some extent; they are just stronger in our brains.

I really appreciated the part about the benefits of mild daydreaming.  It is good to be reminded that this can have benefits if I can just keep it under control.  For a long time, I was aiming for zero daydreaming, which of course, never worked; I can't make myself stop doing what my brain does naturally.  So instead I can put my energy into controlling my daydreaming so that I can live life to the fullest.

Thanks for all of the videos, the blog posts, the website, and everything else you do to tell the world about MD. Learning about the realities of daydreaming through this website has totally changed the way I view myself and my mind.  Seriously, thanks!