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Post by zzzalla on Jan 8, 2020 9:15:33 GMT
Hi, I am a 16 year old human being, who’s had MD for hmm...meaby 10 years. It slowly started when I was six years old and for many years it didn’t bother me and I always found my way to have time for daydreaming. My dreams have always been dreams that could be realistic (not paranormal I mean) for example being world famous singer or something.
Slowly I have gotten rid of it, but since I have been very anxious and I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. I feel like real world feels weird and unreal. It scares me SO much. Can the MD for so many years make your reality and daydreaming go little bit mixed? I don’t daydream much more but when it stopped I started to feel that life is unreal. It is usually a symptom of a challenging anxiety disorder. Have anyone else felt like this? Please?
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Post by philippe on Jan 8, 2020 13:09:49 GMT
Hi,
MDD is not schizophrenia, you don't really mix reality with daydream. Daydreaming just consumes most of your attention.
But if you get rid of MDD you may have to fix an underlying issue, like your anxiety disorder.
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Post by Dimmer on Jan 8, 2020 15:04:02 GMT
Something like that happened to me too, and (I think) it's exactly what Philippe said...
I never even knew I had anxiety, the MD and avoidance hid it really well. But when I started trying to fix the MD it started showing. They need to be worked on at the same time or not much progress will be made.
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Post by zzzalla on Jan 8, 2020 15:40:06 GMT
Hi, MDD is not schizophrenia, you don't really mix reality with daydream. Daydreaming just consumes most of your attention. But if you get rid of MDD you may have to fix an underlying issue, like your anxiety disorder. Hi Philippe, I am aware of differences between MD and schizophrenia and have talked about that with my therapist. Many people combine MD with for example superstition, artistic traits and so on. Because of my MD I have grown to be superstitious (or had tendency for believing in magic/things/spirits that aren’t true) which name to use. I am fully aware that my thoughts and feelings that sound psychotic are not real. As a person I am really delicate and I really do care about my health, so I have always taken all my ”symptoms” over-dramatically which made me an anxious person since I was a kid. So thank you for reminding about the underlying issue, I am at the age where I’ll grow out and my personality is just building. Thank You for replying to me, Happy New Year
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Post by sarah on Jan 9, 2020 3:34:01 GMT
I'm not completely sure but you may be experiencing derealization. Derealization is a symptom of anxiety where it sort of feels like your in a dream and the world seems unreal and off but your still aware that everything around you is real.
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Post by alvi on Jan 9, 2020 17:03:51 GMT
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Sasha
Junior Daydreamer
School is life
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Post by Sasha on Jan 10, 2020 19:00:17 GMT
Hi, I am a 16 year old human being, who’s had MD for hmm...meaby 10 years. It slowly started when I was six years old and for many years it didn’t bother me and I always found my way to have time for daydreaming. My dreams have always been dreams that could be realistic (not paranormal I mean) for example being world famous singer or something. Slowly I have gotten rid of it, but since I have been very anxious and I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. I feel like real world feels weird and unreal. It scares me SO much. Can the MD for so many years make your reality and daydreaming go little bit mixed? I don’t daydream much more but when it stopped I started to feel that life is unreal. It is usually a symptom of a challenging anxiety disorder. Have anyone else felt like this? Please? Can you clarify what you meant by rl and dding becoming mixed? I haven't stopped daydreaming, but when I come out of my daydreams, I do feel like the world is 'off' somehow. I also have an anxiety disorder; possibly the jarring part of 'waking-up' can be at least in part attributed to that. :)
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