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Post by helgy on Sept 22, 2019 18:12:17 GMT
I have had it –I think- since teenagehood. I graduated in literature, and I think my university years supported and covered my disease well, because I could use it many times during my studies in creative writing courses successfully, and also I was confirmed that all poets and writers obviously acted the same way. Which is not impossible, anyway.
I registered here, because it has got worse lately. Worse means, that I began to spend more than acceptable hours a day in dreams, I has accustic responses and also rythmical moves. In my teen years it used to be walking around in my room, now it was stroking my shoulder – not in an erotic way, rather like a support, or just for the rhytm.
I have had a soap oper in my head for 20 years now. Characters appear and disappear, but the main caharacters are the same. My main characters are not me.
I think, sometimes they are characters thar I want (ed) to be, should be, should have been, or could have been with, but never my IRL self.
I am a woman, and my main character is a man, sometimes involved in affairs with a female character like me, but never exactly me.
My MDD I think embraces the concept of „detailed” story. Though I am able to change even the decade where it happens, if I want (and I enjoy it), I also am aware of the tiniest bits of my character, and I never act wrong. I know his soul, his body, his mind, his favourite colours, meals, drinks, his anxieties, his parents, his hobbies, his secret love letters, his childhood memories, his poems, his fears, his medicines, and by heart I know his appartment. EVERYTHING. For me, He lives.
It is sometimes scary. Of course. That is why it is called disease.
The other important thing is my jelousy. During my university years (in literature) I used my fantasies to fulfill my exams in writing. In the last 10 years I am so protective with them, that I think noone ever will know about him/them, I am not willing to tell them.
On the other hand, I have had many positive aftermaths of it. I would like to talk about it in athread, if you are interested.
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Post by bee on Sept 24, 2019 17:46:06 GMT
Hey, that sounds quite detailed :-) I don't have something like that, my stories change after a few month. But I have some characters that reappear sometimes, but it's more like actors, they "play" different characters.
Yes, I would like to hear about those positive aftermaths.
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Post by subrosatwo on Sept 25, 2019 12:55:15 GMT
Hey, my MDD is the same as yours, I'm a woman and my main character is also a man, and I also know every single details about him. This is scaring me and I'm not as lucky as you because I'm still not graduated and it's so hard for me because it's taking me my whole day - and night - and I can't focus on my studies and my future. :(
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Post by helgy on Sept 26, 2019 19:11:23 GMT
Hey, that sounds quite detailed :-) I don't have something like that, my stories change after a few month. But I have some characters that reappear sometimes, but it's more like actors, they "play" different characters. Yes, I would like to hear about those positive aftermaths. Hey, Im newby here, now I dont know what pressing quote button does. I am too new to start a thread, but im am about it. thanks
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Post by helgy on Sept 26, 2019 19:27:00 GMT
Hey, my MDD is the same as yours, I'm a woman and my main character is also a man, and I also know every single details about him. This is scaring me and I'm not as lucky as you because I'm still not graduated and it's so hard for me because it's taking me my whole day - and night - and I can't focus on my studies and my future. :( Hey, thank you for replying. yes, it seems very alike. Honey, I dont know what to say..... it is scary, I know. And almost nothing to do. But if in your studies you find something that is really interesting and you sink in it, maybe MDD will get better. Also, just try to send your character to a boring place, where nothing happens, it also can work, I promise. He will be there, you know that he is there, and you can deal with your own duties
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Post by alvi on Sept 27, 2019 12:01:54 GMT
Hey, my MDD is the same as yours, I'm a woman and my main character is also a man, and I also know every single details about him. This is scaring me and I'm not as lucky as you because I'm still not graduated and it's so hard for me because it's taking me my whole day - and night - and I can't focus on my studies and my future. :( Is there anyway you can incorporate your studies into your daydream? Maybe pretend that you are a character when you study? I have a thing I play when I need to do housework that I named 'guess who is coming for tea?', which is pretty silly but I pretend a daydream character is coming to my home and I need it to be tidy for when they arrive. helgy I would love to hear the positive aftermaths if you ever post them.
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Post by bee on Sept 28, 2019 7:14:01 GMT
Hey, that sounds quite detailed :-) I don't have something like that, my stories change after a few month. But I have some characters that reappear sometimes, but it's more like actors, they "play" different characters. Yes, I would like to hear about those positive aftermaths. Hey, Im newby here, now I dont know what pressing quote button does. I am too new to start a thread, but im am thinking about it. thanks Don't worry about pressing buttons, you won't burn the internet down. :-) I had some difficulties understanding all this forum stuff, too. Just go ahead and don't hesitate to ask if you need help. You can always send a PM (Personal Message) to any of the mods, we won't bite, promise. If you feel like sharing just go ahead and start a new thread, it doesn't have to be perfect (my English certainly isn't :-) ) people will ask if they don't understand something.
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Post by helgy on Sept 29, 2019 14:51:42 GMT
Hey, my MDD is the same as yours, I'm a woman and my main character is also a man, and I also know every single details about him. This is scaring me and I'm not as lucky as you because I'm still not graduated and it's so hard for me because it's taking me my whole day - and night - and I can't focus on my studies and my future. :( Is there anyway you can incorporate your studies into your daydream? Maybe pretend that you are a character when you study? I have a thing I play when I need to do housework that I named 'guess who is coming for tea?', which is pretty silly but I pretend a daydream character is coming to my home and I need it to be tidy for when they arrive. helgy I would love to hear the positive aftermaths if you ever post them. when i mentioned the positive aftermaths, I'd thought also of seemingly tiny things, like the one you've mentioned about housework. I like it I think there are situations, when it is motivating. E.g. when I'd been preparing for my EFL exam, I relocated my storyline into the USA and my characters had to talk English. I really hated when I'd had to dismiss thoughts or dialogues just because I was unable to express myself (themselves). In the beginning it was hopelessly bilingual and lame, but my grammar and vocabulary improved REALLY fast and compellingly. Besides, these were lifelike phrases unlike my textbook. I think it was a constructive use. Also when I attended a kind of web design (DTP) course and we had to lay out an esthetic timeline tool as a home project, I chose a difficult storyline and it motivated me to work it out as beautiful as possible. I found pleasure in doing it (I mean the homework) and it turned out to be one of the best in the class. I think that neither of these interfered my RL much, or a in harmful way, I rather think that I could use IRL for something useful. After all in a way it is a creative activity and can be motivating.
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