Post by initialdescent on Apr 3, 2021 0:37:47 GMT
Hello, folks,
I'm glad to have found this forum. I've been telling myself a story since I was around seven years old or so (currently 42), but I hadn't realized how common the experience is. I had heard Kati Morton talk about maladaptive daydreaming on YouTube and wanted to learn more about it. I wasn't sure whether my daydreaming could be classified as "maladaptive" because it wasn't sure how it had affected my life. That's difficult to see when you're still in the thick of it. I can see how parts of it may affect my life and how I interact with others, and I know (back when I had very little to do at work) I would spend a lot of time there daydreaming.
Odd for a coping mechanism, my daydreaming tends to go away when I'm REALLY depressed. I reach for it for reassurance, but it's not there. I also noticed that it went away noticeably when I started taking Pristiq. I even mentioned it to my psychiatrist--my ability to picture things was just about gone. This medication has also affected my memories, to the point where they're so distant they don't seem to be mine. After hearing about MD, I decided to see what happened if I started taking less of the medication...and I noticed that the daydreams started happening more. That might just be me and how I react to medication, so I wouldn't say that's a "cure."
And now I'm
about how daydreaming more or less will affect my life and my ability to focus. Hm. In any case, learning about MD has made me curious and made me notice more when it's happening. And that's where I am, at this point.
initialdescent
I'm glad to have found this forum. I've been telling myself a story since I was around seven years old or so (currently 42), but I hadn't realized how common the experience is. I had heard Kati Morton talk about maladaptive daydreaming on YouTube and wanted to learn more about it. I wasn't sure whether my daydreaming could be classified as "maladaptive" because it wasn't sure how it had affected my life. That's difficult to see when you're still in the thick of it. I can see how parts of it may affect my life and how I interact with others, and I know (back when I had very little to do at work) I would spend a lot of time there daydreaming.
Odd for a coping mechanism, my daydreaming tends to go away when I'm REALLY depressed. I reach for it for reassurance, but it's not there. I also noticed that it went away noticeably when I started taking Pristiq. I even mentioned it to my psychiatrist--my ability to picture things was just about gone. This medication has also affected my memories, to the point where they're so distant they don't seem to be mine. After hearing about MD, I decided to see what happened if I started taking less of the medication...and I noticed that the daydreams started happening more. That might just be me and how I react to medication, so I wouldn't say that's a "cure."
And now I'm
about how daydreaming more or less will affect my life and my ability to focus. Hm. In any case, learning about MD has made me curious and made me notice more when it's happening. And that's where I am, at this point.initialdescent
