Maladaptive daydreaming-Is it a mental disorder?
Heyy, if ou know what maladaptive daydreaming is and have experienced ot please message me.i really need to talk about it to someone.
I have been doing since i was a child..now i have grown a strong connection with all the characters there. I feel more safe in that imaginary world than this "real" world.
Ik i am not crazy cause i know that these aren't real and is all my imagination but still..
@simbasky
I too did this type of daydreaming and realized for me... it was an escapism type thing and was in the end counter productive in my life.... it is hard but i slowly had to let it go to not feel torn between what I need to do in life and my daydreams.
In real life we do not write the script and things do not always work in our favor.
@toughTiger6481
How do you stop this???
@simbasky
There must be many ways... i am not always successful and fall back on it when i am in certain moods...
I found the most helpful thing has been to ask myself "can i make these daydreams true" "what would i need to do." ...
of course since my daydreams often had items that were not feasible in real life it showed the flaws in my theory and I would re-focus on real things to improve my life instead of daydreaming about success and great things.
@toughTiger6481
Thankyou, i will also try this method, hopefully it stops
But my concern is that what if my life is worthless after I stop it? Because I can't think of anything else in my life which is this interesting and calming..
Tbh I don't wanna stop it but now i realised that it's coming in my way of my everyday life.
