Marcydel
Junior Daydreamer
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Post by Marcydel on Jul 9, 2019 6:01:48 GMT
Hello! Glad to have joined y’all’s site! I have known about this site for a while, but finally decided to join. I’ve also known about MD for about a year now and went through many stages of denial/acceptance, until quite a while ago I finally accepted that I have a problem and am not simply an “introverted”, “dreamy” or “creative” personality, and that a many MANY other people struggle with this waking dream-nightmare as well.
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Post by alvi on Jul 9, 2019 15:53:37 GMT
Welcome to the Forum.
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Post by Dimmer on Jul 10, 2019 14:35:39 GMT
Hey Marcydel, welcome to the forum! I knew about the community for a long time before deciding to join too XD
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Post by Sam on Jul 12, 2019 18:38:46 GMT
Welcome!
I also had a hard time accepting that I actually had MDD. It took me about a year after I first heard about it to accept that it was something that I had and that was causing me a great deal of problems and distress.
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Post by tanishka on Jul 14, 2019 0:01:24 GMT
Hey there! I joined this community as soon as i heard about it. I used to think that daydreaming was pretty normal but then i realised i had been doing it excessively. I have been daydreaming for years now. It had started as something fun but gradually started intervening in my life. But i am trying to cope with this problem and i hope joining this community helps me
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Post by Sam on Jul 14, 2019 0:17:04 GMT
Welcome to the forum!
I also thought that my daydreaming was normal up until about a year ago. It took me writing down everything I did in a day and how long it took me to do for me to realize that I was losing hours a day to daydreaming.
We're glad to have you on the forum. I know that I, personally, have been much better able to deal with my daydreaming since joining the forum. Participating in things helps extra, but just knowing that I'm not alone in this is very comforting.
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Post by nathen on Jul 15, 2019 1:16:15 GMT
Hey, My name is Nathen, and I’m a 17 years old. I’ve been escaping reality for as long as I can remember, when I was younger it was through books. I would read for hours, I would pretend to be the a certain character, and I thought I just had an active imagination. Then, when I was probably 10 years old I started to pretend I was living in the same world as the characters when I was by myself or in public. Eventually things got my complicated as I got older and I began spending hours a daydreaming scenarios I wish would happen. It has and currently is still triggered by music, anytime music is playing I almost remove myself from my body and imagine things that I wish would take place in my real world. Almost as though I was in a music video, and certain people would say certain things in order to fulfill a certain need inside me. I have lots of chronic illnesses so it began with me acting out situations in which friends would come visit me in the hospital. I came to realization that even though I was born a female I actually identify as male, so then my fantasies changed to me being accepted by my family. Slowly I began experimenting with lots of drugs, and my daydreams changed over to someone recognizing that I was out of control and getting me help. When my therapist forced me to stop doing drugs I turned to an eating disorder, and so I would act out dozens of situations in which someone noticed I was too thin. If I can’t actively take part in an addictive tendency such as, drugs, alcohol, anorexia, or cutting, then I would fulfill that need with acting out a wide range of scenarios, all of which I am ultimately saved from myself, accepted, and safe again. I can spend hours a day in these daydreams, and have since I was about 15, it almost always requires me listening to music, i am able to change anything about the situation, and I will act it out until I feel it’s perfect. In its own way it is an addiction for me, and honestly I didn’t know that this was even a thing that was a problem for other people until someone on tik tok mentioned they had MD and when I looked into it I was like, oh shit I do all of that.
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Marcydel
Junior Daydreamer
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Post by Marcydel on Jul 16, 2019 4:03:29 GMT
Hi nathen. Thanks for sharing your story. I used fictional stories to fuel my MD as a kid too, and it seemed harmless at the time. Heck, it probably does start out as harmless, then slowly turns into an obsession. Thanks brain.
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