Has anyone made a diary of their DDing?

sonofyorick
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Has anyone made a diary of their DDing? Dec 28, 2018 19:33:26 GMT

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Post by sonofyorick on Dec 28, 2018 19:33:26 GMT

I'm considering seeking a professionals clinical diagnosis, (I'm happy to be told I've gotten it wrong and I don't have MD but right now all signs point to it BADLY)...

and I'm preemptively making a diary of my thoughts to show them.
Thing is, and you might experience this yourself, it's really hard for me to stay on top of it. I'm missing a couple of days reports, and some of the time I'm having to write about things I'm 50% sure happened yesterday lunch time.

Here's just two days as an example

So question is, if anyone's gone to see a doc or shrink, have they been asked to make a diary?

Thursday

Everything from superhero stuff to fantasising about guys I met the night before , which meant I wasn’t ‘there’ in the last few hours of Christmas with family

Persistent daydream of how I’d be like socialising with my friends brother (a shy London-based boy), conversations is have etc

Train home - become distrscted from astronomy video by thoughts of space , Miss some facts entirely.

Washing up- perpetual, but changing daydreams , mostly me in made up discussions with people . Always when doing dishes.

Friday

Lot of DD in shower, fantasy conversations mostly.
Dog walk- always happens. Brain switches into audience / director mode , duration of walk. Underground lairs, walking dead fan fiction mostly

Back home- DD of drawing people (I draw as a hobby), Thinking

of old friends and fantasies of how they are now they're grown up, imagine scenarios of my friends, lots of weird conversations.

9torrance9
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So excited to know that I am not the only one!

Has anyone made a diary of their DDing? Dec 28, 2018 20:03:13 GMT

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Post by 9torrance9 on Dec 28, 2018 20:03:13 GMT

I actually really love the idea of writing the dreams down! For me though it has always been one persistent story that I embellish or change a little bit and when I tried to write it down it just didn't make any sense. I don't know if anyone else has this but I feel like my brain becomes really crowded and noisy when I am Thinking

so much. I don't think writing it all down helped very much but it's so interesting reading what you think about!
Once I remember reading somewhere that someone was Thinking

about the same character that I often think about and it freaked me out so much that I closed the web page but I would love to be able to find that person again and hear about their interpretation of the character.

piphirho
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Has anyone made a diary of their DDing? Dec 28, 2018 20:10:32 GMT

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Post by piphirho on Dec 28, 2018 20:10:32 GMT

I have written summaries of my major story lines. Basically just outlines without a lot of detail. Some of them have been going on for decades and to write them all in detail would take a very long time, and that is assuming that I could even remember a lot of them.

Dimmer
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Has anyone made a diary of their DDing? Dec 29, 2018 17:50:05 GMT

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Post by Dimmer on Dec 29, 2018 17:50:05 GMT

How are you doing it? If you're trying to write what you daydreamed about I'm not surprised you're struggling with it, that seems to be a lot of unpacking for one day when you are specifically writing for someone else and not just jotting things down for yourself.

I don't think writing your daydreams will help, not in this context anyway, your doctor probably needs to know your symptoms before they bother to sort through the details of your DDs.

IMO, you should only be writing down the major theme/feeling of the DD and a one sentence synopsis. Focus the rest of your entry on how you felt that day; before DD/after DD, the general feeling/major event of the day and a one sentence synopsis of it overall, what your DD prevented you from accomplishing, how you feel about that, whatever, anything, anything real.

Last Edit: Dec 29, 2018 17:51:25 GMT by Dimmer

sonofyorick
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Has anyone made a diary of their DDing? Dec 29, 2018 18:46:04 GMT Dimmer likes this

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Post by sonofyorick on Dec 29, 2018 18:46:04 GMT

I'm not describing intense detail... it's either 'sci-fi', 'fantasy arguments', random acts of violence, etc. The diary is there mostly to give the doc some sense of how prevailing these thought patterns are.

fishno7
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Has anyone made a diary of their DDing? Jan 2, 2019 6:01:39 GMT

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Post by fishno7 on Jan 2, 2019 6:01:39 GMT

I thought of it, but I think the core issue always turn out to be that, The way I enjoy an MD scene doesn't make up for the diary.

When I really MD hard and enjoy it, I love the detail and minor changes that instantly popped up like a spark. If the sparks are not included, the story would be pretty identical because it is the same pure fantasy. I find it very hard to push myself to write down all the sparks I created on that short moment of a day, and I often forgot the spark I created in my story after my MD ends. I usually remembered it right back in my next MD period though, so the changes might still be noticeable, however definitely not in a daily basis.

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Has anyone made a diary of their DDing?

Post by sonofyorick on Dec 28, 2018 19:33:26 GMT

Post by 9torrance9 on Dec 28, 2018 20:03:13 GMT

Post by piphirho on Dec 28, 2018 20:10:32 GMT

Post by Dimmer on Dec 29, 2018 17:50:05 GMT

Post by sonofyorick on Dec 29, 2018 18:46:04 GMT

Post by fishno7 on Jan 2, 2019 6:01:39 GMT