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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 16:06:22 GMT
I need to know your opinion. About the boundary between Maladaptive Daydreaming and just high imagination. The boundary that I mean is: how complex the daydreaming that it will categorized as "MD" instead just "imaginative".
Mine... it started to become MD when the plots start to mixed and I cannot stop it. One plot intertwined with other plot, relates each other, causing another new plot. While the high imagination, the plot may continue, but can still be limited so not expanded too far.
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Post by Sam on Feb 23, 2019 2:53:47 GMT
I think it becomes maladaptive when it gets compulsive. As in "I can't stop myself from daydreaming, even when I don't want to daydream." Additionally, when it starts to affect your everyday life negatively. I mention the two separately because you can, theoretically, daydream compulsively and still have a normal life. Some people on here have MD, but say that it doesn't really affect their lives negatively.
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Post by Lucy on Mar 1, 2019 19:26:26 GMT
I knew that my daydreaming was maladaptive when I realised both how often I was daydreaming and the fact that I'm essentially living a double life in my head that is having a negative effect on the way I view myself. My daydreams are kind of vivid. I basically just take scenes from films and plonk my character in the middle of it. But I can't really focus on the appearance of all things at the same time. For example, sometimes if there are quite a few "minor characters" I don't really focus on what they look like, they're kind of just figures. I guess I can get kind of lazy when it comes to the details.
So I guess in my opinion the daydreaming becomes maladaptive if it's affecting your daily life/mental health and becomes "imaginative" if its a source of inspiration or creativity
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