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Post by Wynn on Jul 8, 2019 18:49:13 GMT
I keep having a worrisome thought about my MD. I think I'm one of the older ones here and I was thinking if/when my mind starts to go, what if I start talking about my daydreams as if they were memories and everyone is just like "silly old bat, that Wynn.. always going on about adventures and romances that never happened." They are memories to me.. they are sort of my history, so what if when I can't tell the difference anymore the lines really do blur? I'm mortified for my future self already!
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Post by Sam on Jul 8, 2019 19:16:20 GMT
Maybe you could try writing out some of your daydreams (or even really just summaries would work) so that you have a physical record of whats real and what isn't? You could do it with your real life experiences as well. That way you'd be able to remind yourself or show others what happened and what didn't.
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Post by Wynn on Jul 8, 2019 21:04:42 GMT
Ooh, I'm ahead of you there! imgur.com/a/jN3zfjRThis is about 35 years of MD, not counting what I've typed up since word processors became a thing. Maybe I can start indexing it lol! I'm kidding.. sort of. Part of my worries are I *have* written most of it out, over and over, building entire worlds and forging pathways of memory and triggers over decades. I wonder if there are older people with MD who have lost their grip on reality to some degree whose MD reality slips through and nobody knows, they just think they've gone senile. I'd totally be curious to see a study about this in the future! |
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Post by Dimmer on Jul 10, 2019 14:39:52 GMT
I worry about those things too. I guess it'd be ok if they just thought I was senile though, no shame in that, happens to many people.
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Post by piphirho on Jul 17, 2019 20:25:34 GMT
Ooh, I'm ahead of you there! imgur.com/a/jN3zfjRThis is about 35 years of MD, not counting what I've typed up since word processors became a thing. Maybe I can start indexing it  ! I'm kidding.. sort of. Part of my worries are I *have* written most of it out, over and over, building entire worlds and forging pathways of memory and triggers over decades. I wonder if there are older people with MD who have lost their grip on reality to some degree whose MD reality slips through and nobody knows, they just think they've gone senile. I'd totally be curious to see a study about this in the future! That's impressive! And very old school. I have written a lot of mine, too, but they're all on the computer now. |
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Post by piphirho on Jul 17, 2019 20:33:33 GMT
I am also old, but this is not something that ever occurred to me as a problem. I have a pretty good sense of reality and know what is real vs. what is fantasy. This is mostly because a lot of my MD storylines are no quite what you would call reality based. But there is what I call my "alternate reality" storyline, and I suppose if dementia ever set in I might have a problem distinguishing. On my list of daily concerns this is not high on the list.
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Marcydel
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Post by Marcydel on Jul 31, 2019 14:11:13 GMT
For years all of my favorite memories that I treasure are associated with my daydreams instead of reality, and I’m extremely annoyed by this. I guess it’s because MD induces the “happy chemicals” (like dopamine or serotonin) and the excitation of those feelings of warmness and well-being are misplaced in addicts.
But I’ve personally never had issues with directly mistaking dreams from reality and I don’t think it will become a problem when I get older. I think we’ll be fine.
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biancaj
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Post by biancaj on Sept 18, 2019 23:15:22 GMT
I keep having a worrisome thought about my MD. I think I'm one of the older ones here and I was  if/when my mind starts to go, what if I start talking about my daydreams as if they were memories and everyone is just like "silly old bat, that Wynn.. always going on about adventures and romances that never happened." They are memories to me.. they are sort of my history, so what if when I can't tell the difference anymore the lines really do blur? I'm mortified for my future self already! OMG I had never thought of this before!!! I'44 now, it hasn't happened yet, and my mother, whom I suspect has MDD herself, is 69, never did it. I don't know anyone else who could |
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! I'm kidding.. sort of. Part of my worries are I *have* written most of it out, over and over, building entire worlds and forging pathways of memory and triggers over decades. I wonder if there are older people with MD who have lost their grip on reality to some degree whose MD reality slips through and nobody knows, they just think they've gone senile. I'd totally be curious to see a study about this in the future! 
if/when my mind starts to go, what if I start talking about my daydreams as if they were memories and everyone is just like "silly old bat, that Wynn.. always going on about adventures and romances that never happened." They are memories to me.. they are sort of my history, so what if when I can't tell the difference anymore the lines really do blur? I'm mortified for my future self already!