- Date posted
- 1y
Maladaptive daydreaming
Can we talk about maladaptive daydreaming. I don't know or not sure if it's a part of OCD of some kind and it's symptom but like in my head I feel like talking to and giving speech infront of a particular group of people, I am associated with right now at the particular point of time like my classmates, seniors and juniors and teachers like I am trying to put an impression to them. It happens so sneakily or subltly sometimes, I don't even recognise doing it. It prompts me to even talk and make hand movements. The group of people changes as I move and associate with a new group of people. I also feel like talking to large group of people like as if I am giving some motivational speech. It has gotten into me to where I feel like I am just telling others what helped me whenever I feel like I felt little good. I earlier used to sometimes study like a teacher teaching someone. As a kid imagined students and also acted like teachers getting offended if a student does something really naughty, not paying attention so I would tell them not to do so. And as I grew up, I used to study the same way walking aroud the house. I felt there's a lot more between the lines trying to understand a concept and like giving a speech which might have helped me but it became so much that whenever I take the book to study without my knowledge, I would get on talking like that for hours and hours and that's how, time went and I couldn't cover even one page sometimes. I don't know how I managed to give my exams like that. But from that, it started the process of never having my syllabus completed and having a hard time reading a book and enjoying completing it. If I start reading then also I have the pressure of completing it, for which I wouldn't enjoy reading the book with the pressure. Earlier when I was fine I could read without fears or anxiety, enjoying the process not thinking if I could finish it and I completed also. For years, I haven't been able to complete a book, a huge book like novels or anything just short stories somehow I read and I took literature and I actually want to read like I loved books, reading books and I love literature. I want to, I literally want to, read a lot and it makes me so sad to feel it, that I cannot as fast as I could because I repeat phrases over and over again and it distresses. The reading experience doesn't become as I think, it becomes distressing, not going smoothly, you just want to leave reading early or you become hyperactive also very much distracted and aware of your surroundings. But meanwhile I am doing small sessions of reading like a few pages or less than that. I am trying. Had pretty much good experience in between too after struggle and my mind constantly saying something or the other. "You should do it this way or that way" like the right way of doing it and wandering in betweens to think. It would be nice if we discuss about it or I get some responses