Maladaptive daydreamers
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B_ridgette
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3 years, 4 months ago by B_ridgette
If you are or think you are a maladaptive daydreamer, let’s be friends! 🙂
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B_ridgette
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3 years, 4 months ago by B_ridgette
And if you don’t know what it is, I can try to explain
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noraknots
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3 years, 4 months ago by noraknots
what is that?
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B_ridgette
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3 years, 4 months ago by B_ridgette
@noraknots maladaptive day dreaming disorder is a mental illness ( I didn’t know it until recently, so add another illness to me) where you daydream a lot. But you create these characters in your head and have an emotional attachment to them. They can be made up entirely or some can be taken from shows or movies. But with it, it can distract you from a lot of things and you can even dissociate. It’s hard to diagnose and while im not officially diagnosed I believe I have it. And one thing that I see online that is common, is when listening to songs, it can sorta trigger them to say dream and make a plot or the event which their characters, and like, that’s me. lolHope this was somewhat helpful |
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B_ridgette
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3 years, 4 months ago by B_ridgette
Oh, and it can also be a coping mechanism for trauma or traumatic events or times, not always related to trauma but can be
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Vivi07
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3 years, 4 months ago by Vivi07
Ummmm… sounds a lot like me… 😂
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B_ridgette
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3 years, 4 months ago by B_ridgette
@Vivi07cool! do you have like characters you made up or are some form like tv or movies? |
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aiden707
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3 years, 4 months ago by aiden707
Oh my... I have been called out... I do this a lot. The part about music and fictional plot is scarily accurateI didn't know there was an actual mental disorder like this. |
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Vivi07
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3 years, 4 months ago by Vivi07
Mostly books, but I sometimes take characters from movies or smth and twist them to make them kinda different?
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GenMalucci
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3 years, 4 months ago by GenMalucci
Interesting.. I don’t think I have this exact thing, but very similar
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-avarxse-
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3 years, 4 months ago by -avarxse-
i dont think i actually have it, but i do daydream a ton, and usually do it when im bored or something
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Serpens
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3 years, 4 months ago by Serpens
*fix*Maladaptive daydreaming is not a mental illness in itself, exactly, but something that comes with many mental disorders and types of neurodiversity. Also, not everyone dreams up full-on worlds within plots and characters and all that (I wish I was that creative...). A less noticeable but no less common way of maladaptive daydreaming is when people spend most of their time imagining different scenarios from real life, or their possible variations, hypothetical situations they might find themselves in, complex conversations and arguments with people they know, etc Maladaptive daydreaming is just daydreaming to an extreme extent- it can be different for every person ~💖 |
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B_ridgette
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3 years, 4 months ago by B_ridgette
@Seperpens yes, it does vary form person to person but I was just trying to explain it how I could and what I’ve experienced.
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lonely1312
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3 years, 4 months ago by lonely1312
🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️
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SusuKnots
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3 years, 4 months ago by SusuKnots
huh I didn't know this was a thing, i thought it was just me 😂 anyway yeah i do this all the time lol
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Girl_Pearl
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3 years, 4 months ago by Girl_Pearl
I do this kind of “daydreaming” quite often. Like when I didn’t like how a movie ended I would create a story in my head. And sometimes I like to dream of my future, my soulmate, and things like that. Also I like to twist my past experiences to where I’m cool 😎
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