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Post by Raven on Dec 10, 2018 10:53:28 GMT
I'd be curious to know how you find out MD was a thing?
For example I found out by googling something like "daydreaming your life away" one day when I felt like I had hit rock bottom being stuck inside my own head.
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Post by Dimmer on Dec 10, 2018 14:30:05 GMT
I found the word 'paracosm' in a book about the Bronte sisters. It just kinda hit me like.. wow, there is SOMETHING here, there ARE other people... somewhere. So I googled the shit out of it and found absolutely nothing. There were a few things I guess, but not like MD, so I got discouraged and kinda gave up on it. A few years later, on a whim, I looked it up again and finally found something. During the years in between searches MD had been discovered and I finally found it.
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Post by Raven on Dec 10, 2018 16:48:01 GMT
I found the word 'paracosm' in a book about the Bronte sisters. Were the Bronte sisters maladaptive daydreamers ?? |
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Post by Dimmer on Dec 10, 2018 17:01:16 GMT
I found the word 'paracosm' in a book about the Bronte sisters. Were the Bronte sisters maladaptive daydreamers ?? Idk about MD but they absolutely had paracosms as children. |
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Post by Wirlock on Dec 10, 2018 20:41:34 GMT
Mines a bit silly, on Imgur I was commenting how I daydream so hard I disassociate at work, and as a commenter so elegantly put it, "You one of em maladaptive daydreamers" and so I found myself here.
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Post by alvi on Dec 14, 2018 14:43:30 GMT
In April 2015, I finally had enough wondering and just started Google-searching key words and terms of what I was doing. Google: daydream too much Google: realistic daydreams Google: can't stop daydreaming This was pretty much what I did. Googling ways to stop dd. It was causing so many issues, my ex once pulled me back from stepping into the road in front of a car. I was struggling to follow conversations and wasn't able to complete basic tasks. I can't count the amount of times I burnt things when cooking, I actually became a danger to myself. One of the biggest issues is I use dd to cope with mental and physical health problems and without dd my problems are pretty consuming and on the days when my physical health is bad I'm pretty inactive so it helps to distract from that. |
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Post by katie on Dec 14, 2018 16:24:41 GMT
My pacing and loud music became noticeable to some of my family and I also was curious was I the only one in the world that does this and what was it. I googled excessive daydreaming and MDD came up.Then I just researched all I could about MDD.
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Post by june on Dec 15, 2018 8:30:07 GMT
Found it while I was looking into Avoident personality disorder that a psychologist said I had some fleas from. I had completely given up on finding anyone else who is like me.
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Post by june on Dec 15, 2018 8:32:32 GMT
In April 2015, I finally had enough wondering and just started Google-searching key words and terms of what I was doing. Google: daydream too much Google: realistic daydreams Google: can't stop daydreaming This was pretty much what I did. Googling ways to stop dd. It was causing so many issues, my ex once pulled me back from stepping into the road in front of a car. I was struggling to follow conversations and wasn't able to complete basic tasks. I can't count the amount of times I burnt things when cooking, I actually became a danger to myself. One of the biggest issues is I use dd to cope with mental and physical health problems and without dd my problems are pretty consuming and on the days when my physical health is bad I'm pretty inactive so it helps to distract from that. Totally like me there it seems. Thank you for sharing. |
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