Post by fellowmder on Dec 13, 2021 13:07:07 GMT
TOLD MY MOM AND I QUESTION WHETHER I HAVE MADD OR NOT
So, I just had a bad mood swing, almost a fight with my dad and got very emotional and just told my mom I have a problem called maladaptive daydreaming. I tried telling her what it means, though I think it was harder for her to realize what I was talking about- she is a very driven person; to her, any problem has every possible solution over which one could glide over or knock off- she has been living a very persistent life. so, i really understand that when I say I get triggered by music to daydream, her gentle answer is you can try controlling it by doing this and this, which by the way, started making perfect sense to me as well. It totally made me question whether this problem is real or is it just impossible to overcome or is it that I just don't have it. Cause after talking to her I read articles by Somer and felt I never had a traumatic incidence in life to incite anything. This encounter overall just makes me question whether I was just procrastinating and disguising it as a problem (this btw is very characteristic of many elders in my home and I might have picked it up to gain attention; I seriously don't know anymore)
PSYCHIATRIST APPOINTMENT
My mom though, knowing this was the route cause of all of my problems took me to a psychiatrist. So, I told him these things-
I have been daydreaming for like 5-8 hrs a day for 5 years. I used to daydream as a kid for like 10-15 min but it escalated during my high school years due to an abrupt shift in grades. It took me like 6-8 months digressing I am wasting time on daydreaming and that there are people on the internet who let me know it is an existent problem (P.S. I NEVER MENTIONED THE TERM "MALADAPTIVE", I didn't want to come off as a self-diagnosing person or wanted to be negative about the whole consultation if the doctor would have straight up rejected existence of something like that). Then, I told him times when I tried decreasing it or just straight up going cold turkey with it, about the triggering factors, about how being lonely kinda just automatically starts this engine and how I failed a semester and dropped the last one due to covid isolation escalating my problem.
WHAT HE SAID
He diagnosed me with OCD- gave me a low power med. Told me I currently have no control over daydreaming, it is a very unconscious thing and I literally go flight mode with it- just the means is daydreaming. I just told myself to be positive about this entire situation.
IS ANYONE HERE WITH OCD- WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS
I took the prescription and for some reason (maybe it's because I know I took the pill) I feel so weirdly light headed. Everything almost feels like a movie and I am just a bystander. The weird thing- I tried daydreaming (although I should have tried suppressing it) and I just felt this mental barrier continuously making it harder for me to take the cue and run the story- I weirdly feel so disconnected with it and just really emotionless on the note. AGAIN STATING, I MIGHT BE MAKING THIS UP IN HEAD THAT IT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING DUE TO THE PILL.
Still, had anybody felt this really happening- people with OCD after taking their first prescription.
IN ALL WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? Do you guys really think this can be diagnosed as OCD? I didn't really talk about any other things as symptoms of mine- I don't have any except my stress eating thing (I just forgot to tell them). I wanted to ask what I can ask or do the next time- should I make my thoughts about this situation clear- what things I runoff while daydreaming, emotional feelings I feel while daydreaming and how it simply helps feed my attention and self-pity craving aspects.
THANKS FOR READING !
So, I just had a bad mood swing, almost a fight with my dad and got very emotional and just told my mom I have a problem called maladaptive daydreaming. I tried telling her what it means, though I think it was harder for her to realize what I was talking about- she is a very driven person; to her, any problem has every possible solution over which one could glide over or knock off- she has been living a very persistent life. so, i really understand that when I say I get triggered by music to daydream, her gentle answer is you can try controlling it by doing this and this, which by the way, started making perfect sense to me as well. It totally made me question whether this problem is real or is it just impossible to overcome or is it that I just don't have it. Cause after talking to her I read articles by Somer and felt I never had a traumatic incidence in life to incite anything. This encounter overall just makes me question whether I was just procrastinating and disguising it as a problem (this btw is very characteristic of many elders in my home and I might have picked it up to gain attention; I seriously don't know anymore)
PSYCHIATRIST APPOINTMENT
My mom though, knowing this was the route cause of all of my problems took me to a psychiatrist. So, I told him these things-
I have been daydreaming for like 5-8 hrs a day for 5 years. I used to daydream as a kid for like 10-15 min but it escalated during my high school years due to an abrupt shift in grades. It took me like 6-8 months digressing I am wasting time on daydreaming and that there are people on the internet who let me know it is an existent problem (P.S. I NEVER MENTIONED THE TERM "MALADAPTIVE", I didn't want to come off as a self-diagnosing person or wanted to be negative about the whole consultation if the doctor would have straight up rejected existence of something like that). Then, I told him times when I tried decreasing it or just straight up going cold turkey with it, about the triggering factors, about how being lonely kinda just automatically starts this engine and how I failed a semester and dropped the last one due to covid isolation escalating my problem.
WHAT HE SAID
He diagnosed me with OCD- gave me a low power med. Told me I currently have no control over daydreaming, it is a very unconscious thing and I literally go flight mode with it- just the means is daydreaming. I just told myself to be positive about this entire situation.
IS ANYONE HERE WITH OCD- WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS
I took the prescription and for some reason (maybe it's because I know I took the pill) I feel so weirdly light headed. Everything almost feels like a movie and I am just a bystander. The weird thing- I tried daydreaming (although I should have tried suppressing it) and I just felt this mental barrier continuously making it harder for me to take the cue and run the story- I weirdly feel so disconnected with it and just really emotionless on the note. AGAIN STATING, I MIGHT BE MAKING THIS UP IN HEAD THAT IT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING DUE TO THE PILL.
Still, had anybody felt this really happening- people with OCD after taking their first prescription.
IN ALL WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS? Do you guys really think this can be diagnosed as OCD? I didn't really talk about any other things as symptoms of mine- I don't have any except my stress eating thing (I just forgot to tell them). I wanted to ask what I can ask or do the next time- should I make my thoughts about this situation clear- what things I runoff while daydreaming, emotional feelings I feel while daydreaming and how it simply helps feed my attention and self-pity craving aspects.
THANKS FOR READING !
