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Post by jinaminbun on Jul 3, 2020 21:03:35 GMT
So I’m pretty new to this. I’ve been doing it for a while but I just realized it has a name. People have been calling it a disorder and I’ve been reading a lot posts where people try to stop. I don’t really want to stop. I like my daydreams. My life is pretty boring and I don’t have a lot of hobby’s. I’m a massive introvert and there’s nothing I like as much as lying down, listening to music and dreaming the day away. I’ve annoyed my parents with it a lot as they keep calling me lazy for procrastinating, but I don’t want to do anything else.
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Post by Sam on Jul 4, 2020 3:51:42 GMT
I don't think its necessarily bad to not want to stop. It's a coping mechanism and for a lot of us, it helped us through some pretty terrible times. If you don't feel that it's negatively impacting you, then you shouldn't feel bad about not wanting to stop.
You could just be an immersive daydreamer. You can have super vivid daydreams and spend a lot of time daydreaming without it being maladaptive. The key point of maladaptive daydreams is that you prefer them over real life, to the point where it impairs your ability to function in work/school or maintain healthy interpersonal relationships. Feeling that they control you and what you do is another common experience. As long as you feel that you have a healthy balance between real life and daydreams, there's no reason why you shouldn't still daydream as you do.
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