Wild Minds Network: Helping or Hindering?

[LJ]

Hey all my fellow DDers: Does this site help or hinder?  I am conflicted.  I want to stop but, not really.  I hate missing life and feeling unfulfilled, yet I love the escape of real life dding gives me. 

Such conflicting emotions: guilt, confusion and frustration.  I feel like my life is never really one way or the other.  Just a jumble of ups and downs. 

DDing has become some sort of therapy for when everything that is "real" is out of control, it is the one thing I can control.

Some of the blogs on this site help to encourage me to stop while others move me to continue.

Today I am a complete mess! DDing all day then getting frustrated 'cause my "real life" sucks: TODAY.

 

Let me know your thoughts.

[Wish Upon A Wish]

Personally, I've found (recently) that DDing seems to be a way of processing emotion, and maybe processing information, too, so going by that I probably shouldn't stop, but I do want more control over it. I want to be able to not DD if I need to do something uninteresting, but not only do I enjoy it, I also need to process things properly.

So the third option, which you didn't post, is to just get it under control. Personally, I think that would be what you should do, but it's your decision what you decide.

[Iris]

The day I found this site, is one of the most important days of my life. I was dding for nearly 40 years, nearly everyday, always thinking I am a freak, having these not-existing people and this not-existing world in my head. I felt guilty dding, and thought it is my own fault, that I don't have my thoughts under control. What a relief it is to know, I am not the only one. It also helps me, feeling less guilty when dding.

I come to this site everyday, because I am so happy about it.

I still dd, less, but I still do. On frustrating days we need comfort, and this is what we are used to do to get comfort: dding. The real life alternative would be to talk with friends about our problems.

I know, that on this website some people really enjoy their dd, I don't. This doesn't mean, that I don't like creativity, like painting and story-writing. But for me I see a big difference between being creative and being forced into a fantasy-world.