Present in Body, Elsewhere in Thought

[Jessica Ballantyne]

I see that not everybody has my brain...and they're not me...but, I feel like whenever I'm around people, I got so embarrassed or burned. It does depend on the social group, but I happen to be around people who don't know what to make of me, and can't put a finger on what I'm doing in my head...to block out the their words. 

I'll be blunt. I've had a lot of people respond to me in a way, they think I'm suddenly off in another universe or they're figure I'm suddenly someplace else, because my eyes are blank and darting everywhere, and I didn't listen to what they just said. This has been going on for 39 years—nearly 40, per say. 

Some people are easy, and some people aren't. But I feel people are reading me like a book, and noticing abruptly that I'm not social and normal. 

[Sergio Silveira]

I would like people to know about my book on my own personal experience with Maladaptive Daydreaming, which afflicted my life for many years and the central thing that impelled me to continually go back to it. I describe in it the method of construction and the richly detailed “reality” of daydreams, the circumstances that often triggered them, how daydreaming actually lessened my feelings for other people, and the reason for my daydreams’ “unparalleled” thrill, and why it does not last, leading to my creation of brand-new daydreams. I felt it fitting to carefully describe my own personal experience with Maladaptive Daydreaming in the form of a novel with aspects of fantasy, since it was fantasy what I spent so much of my life immersed in, and through the experience of a fictional character, who is in so many ways different from me, but shares my own experience and journey out of Maladaptive Daydreaming.

It is available on Amazon! A Breathtaking Life Lived in Daydreams: A Novel About Daydreaming

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