Sasha
Junior Daydreamer
School is life
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Post by Sasha on Dec 17, 2019 3:43:44 GMT
Hey guys,
I don't know about you, but I was desperate to find answers for the ways I felt and what all I did. In the process of discovering MD Disorder, I diagnosed and re-diagnosed myself with many different things. One of my favorites to look back on was when I thought I was developing schizophrenia. At other times, I thought I had ADHD.
Anyway, I'm just curious about you guys' experiences. What did you all think? If you told others, what did they think?
P.S. If there are enough responses I'd like to make a poll with the most common answers :)
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Post by someone on Dec 17, 2019 4:16:37 GMT
I got a preliminary diagnosis of ADD, the inattentive type, but that didn't feel right. I knew that before daydreams took over my life focusing when I was alone wasn't hard. When daydreaming got bad was when I wasn't able to keep deadlines and everything got dragged out. So I looked up escapism and addiction to daydream or something like that, and I found MD and then I found here through an article.
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Sasha
Junior Daydreamer
School is life
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Post by Sasha on Dec 17, 2019 4:21:42 GMT
I got a preliminary diagnosis of ADD, the inattentive type, but that didn't feel right. I knew that before daydreams took over my life focusing when I was alone wasn't hard. When daydreaming got bad was when I wasn't able to keep deadlines and everything got dragged out. So I looked up escapism and addiction to daydream or something like that, and I found MD and then I found here through an article. I completely understand where you're coming from. I was also diagnosed with something that didn't feel right, and didn't really seem to fit either. It wasn't an official diagnosis since the disorder someone thought I had isn't in the DSM. If maladaptive is added to the DSM, I'm sure I will be 'officially' diagnosed with that instead haha. Anyway, I started missing deadlines as well, and that is also how I ran into MD Disorder. |
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Post by potterhead on Dec 17, 2019 12:09:06 GMT
I got a preliminary diagnosis of ADD, the inattentive type, but that didn't feel right. I knew that before daydreams took over my life focusing when I was alone wasn't hard. When daydreaming got bad was when I wasn't able to keep deadlines and everything got dragged out. So I looked up escapism and addiction to daydream or something like that, and I found MD and then I found here through an article. I was diagnosed with ADD too, I even had to take medication for a while, but I knew something wasn't right because it didn't really help with my daydreams. I also had a therapist who thought I had problems with dissociation, but I know some people who deal with that and their problems were completely different than what I was going through, so it didn't feel right either. |
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Post by dreamermusings on Dec 19, 2019 20:08:17 GMT
I am in the same boat, I was diagnosed with ADD as well! Just something never added up. My meds never truly helped and even though daydreams were so heavily influencing my life, that always seemed to be ignored by others. I definitely avoided telling others as much as possible, I like to keep to myself.
Anyways personally I always thought I had mental trauma from not dealing with issues head on. I usually would escape into my mind when serious events happened or just trauma... I don’t want to get into it. My escape was MD. So before I understood I was really desperate for an explanation. I convinced myself that i was too broken for depression and so the only way for my brain to deal was to create an entirely different existence aka AU. Of course now that I have found MD looking back, I sounded really confused.
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rb
New Daydreamer
feeling ok whats weird is stress helps with my MD thats so messed up
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Post by rb on Jan 14, 2020 2:14:07 GMT
How many peo[ple get diagnosed with this from a psychologist? i would not think many it sucks but knowing there is other people like you is a blessing.
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Post by Sam on Jan 14, 2020 3:42:12 GMT
How many peo[ple get diagnosed with this from a psychologist? i would not think many it sucks but knowing there is other people like you is a blessing. Not very many. There isn't much awareness or research about MD yet, so not many people, even medical professionals, know about it. |
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