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Post by manu on Jun 11, 2020 9:40:58 GMT
Before today, I didn't know what it was called, Maladaptive Daydreaming. For years, I had been lost in daydreaming. Sometimes it is very overwhelming, sometimes I come out easily. I have imagined the worst things in my life like having cancer. It felt so real, I would cry at times. Some nights I can't sleep or I don't know if I am sleeping or unconscious. To avoid it, I would take so much work to keep myself busy. People call me that I am so busy but the thing is I am scared. I am scared if I get lost in there. Then, I don't care about anything. Everything around me seems useless. I would call a friend but I don't know what to say. And sometimes these dreams are so heavy on me that I do stupid things. I have tried to make my life like dreams and it just created more problems. I know dreams and real life are so different but it hurts me so much.
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Post by katie on Jun 11, 2020 10:48:04 GMT
Before today, I didn't know what it was called, Maladaptive Daydreaming. For years, I had been lost in daydreaming. Sometimes it is very overwhelming, sometimes I come out easily. I have imagined the worst things in my life like having cancer. It felt so real, I would cry at times. Some nights I can't sleep or I don't know if I am sleeping or unconscious. To avoid it, I would take so much work to keep myself busy. People call me that I am so busy but the thing is I am scared. I am scared if I get lost in there. Then, I don't care about anything. Everything around me seems useless. I would call a friend but I don't know what to say. And sometimes these dreams are so heavy on me that I do stupid things. I have tried to make my life like dreams and it just created more problems. I know dreams and real life are so different but it hurts me so much. Hello I can relate that it gets in the way of been on top of my social life and causes anxiety around me saying or doing something wrong and the reply is not good or what I want to hear. Gosh I do so many stupid things not all the times but sometimes I wonder if my brain is stuck between reality and my inner world because of things I do and comes in waves when it happens could be a hand full of times a year or more. It's normal for us to get overwhelming feeling if something sad happens within our daydreaming. within normal daydreaming its 2000 times a day and people normally see if they can focus their reality and make ambitions for their life with what they daydream about its harder for us to do that as we can't tell if we are maladaptive daydreaming or just daydreaming. At times I can tell if I start to daydream normally and then one of my characters pops in. There is visualizing types of daydreaming as well where you brain problem solves in a way I can't tell the difference sometimes but my therapist that I had before explained it to me as what I explained to her she told me what it was and said it not my maladaptive daydreaming helped me split the 2 so I would know.
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Post by Sam on Jun 12, 2020 2:46:06 GMT
Welcome to the forum!
Keeping yourself busy can definitely decrease the amount of time you spend daydreaming, but it can create its own issues. Have you tried figuring out why your daydreaming is maladaptive? A lot of us use it as a coping mechanism for other mental illnesses, trauma, or unpleasant emotions. If you can learn to use healthier coping skills to deal with those things, you should feel less compelled to daydream.
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