Hellooo! I hadn't realized this was an actual condition
Jan 22, 2021 20:49:02 GMT
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Post by acmo284 on Jan 22, 2021 20:49:02 GMT
Hello! I am 14 years old and I live in Ottawa. I read about maladaptive daydreaming a few weeks ago. I realized that I have several symptoms in common. I've payed attention for signs and read many articles and I now find that my daydreams have been getting gradually worse. It's a strange feeling, I hate that I feel like I'm stuck and can't get out of these daydreams, but I also feel like I don't what to let go of them. It's almost as if, from force of retreating into these fictious places, I have become attached to them. Is that unusual? It often distracts me from schoolwork.
I read about this forum on a Healthline article and figured I would give it a try. I'm pretty uncomfortable talking about all this and putting some personal info into a website but I figured that if it's mentionned on a webpage run by medical professionals it should be fine, I hope. I initially planned on just reading a few people's messages and maybe finding strategies to help. I thought I may be convicing myself that I have this and that I might actually not. If I am, its not the first time I've done this. (For example, I'm gitfted and for a short while I thought I might have austim. It turns out that autistic and gifted brains are very similar so I might have a few symptoms. I'm also very interested in neurobiology so I love reading about how all that works.)
Anyway, I'm really just looking to see if talking about it helps at all and if I can find strategies to use that might help me focus more on school than on fictional places and characters based on books and TV shows. I also have anxiety and occasional panic attacks which I've heard can be linked to maladaptive daydreaming.
I read about this forum on a Healthline article and figured I would give it a try. I'm pretty uncomfortable talking about all this and putting some personal info into a website but I figured that if it's mentionned on a webpage run by medical professionals it should be fine, I hope. I initially planned on just reading a few people's messages and maybe finding strategies to help. I thought I may be convicing myself that I have this and that I might actually not. If I am, its not the first time I've done this. (For example, I'm gitfted and for a short while I thought I might have austim. It turns out that autistic and gifted brains are very similar so I might have a few symptoms. I'm also very interested in neurobiology so I love reading about how all that works.)
Anyway, I'm really just looking to see if talking about it helps at all and if I can find strategies to use that might help me focus more on school than on fictional places and characters based on books and TV shows. I also have anxiety and occasional panic attacks which I've heard can be linked to maladaptive daydreaming.
