Post by lou on Aug 26, 2019 8:03:08 GMT
Hello all
I have just discovered the term Maladaptive dreaming yesterday for the first time, and I have little doubt that I suffer from it and have been for a very long time. As a teenager I already tried to curb it and repress it, because I was ashamed of the content of my dreams.
It feels very nice to see that it's actually "a thing" and I'm not the only one out there.
I suffer from a range of other things, including general anxiety disorder, social anxiety, PTSD.
But I don't have the feeling that my MD gets more severe when my anxiety is the most severe... I feel that it also gets triggered by simply feeling happy. Overall I tend to destroy "real feelings" whether positive or negative by escaping in an imaginary world that leaves me detached and confused in the real world, giving me further incentives to escape, etc... I think the core of all my mental issues is my compulsion to avoid strong emotions by "dissociating" - and yet I seek them so much in my imaginary world. It's very confusing.
Now that I have discovered about MD I will pay more attention to what triggers it.
I'm hoping that through this forum I could get some external perspective on my daydreams and what could be my motivations for them? Some of them bother me tremendously, and it's hard not hating myself for dreaming them.
It's already a really long post! All this is very fresh and I'm just
this through! Thank you for reading this :-)
Would you guys share with me what's been one helpful thing for you to improve on MD? (From an insight gained through therapy or writing about the dreams, or an online resource, etc.)
I have just discovered the term Maladaptive dreaming yesterday for the first time, and I have little doubt that I suffer from it and have been for a very long time. As a teenager I already tried to curb it and repress it, because I was ashamed of the content of my dreams.
It feels very nice to see that it's actually "a thing" and I'm not the only one out there.
I suffer from a range of other things, including general anxiety disorder, social anxiety, PTSD.
But I don't have the feeling that my MD gets more severe when my anxiety is the most severe... I feel that it also gets triggered by simply feeling happy. Overall I tend to destroy "real feelings" whether positive or negative by escaping in an imaginary world that leaves me detached and confused in the real world, giving me further incentives to escape, etc... I think the core of all my mental issues is my compulsion to avoid strong emotions by "dissociating" - and yet I seek them so much in my imaginary world. It's very confusing.
Now that I have discovered about MD I will pay more attention to what triggers it.
I'm hoping that through this forum I could get some external perspective on my daydreams and what could be my motivations for them? Some of them bother me tremendously, and it's hard not hating myself for dreaming them.
It's already a really long post! All this is very fresh and I'm just
this through! Thank you for reading this :-)Would you guys share with me what's been one helpful thing for you to improve on MD? (From an insight gained through therapy or writing about the dreams, or an online resource, etc.)
