I'm being to think my daydreams are odd or a another symptom of OCD In one of my day dreams I was buried alive. Some how I managed to make it out of the grave yard alive but never saw my family again. In a different one I was taken to a summer camp that didn't exist and was surrounded by the ghosts of dead children and abusive teachers And in my Least I tried commiting suicide by jumping of a bridge I survived thanks to surgery but ended up in mental hospital for 6 months. And it's hard to concentrate fully. I really don't know what do because I can't control them. I kinda find them scary. Can someone help me? Or aleast let me know that it isn't just me. Sorry if I post to much.

Anonymous

Date posted: 5y

I have maladaptive daydreaming disorder and I often daydream about characters I like being put in horrible situations.

chichi 24

Date posted: 5y

What do you do to cope?🙂

Anonymous

Date posted: 5y

@chichi 24 You know, it’s always kind of just been a thing I do I guess and I’ve not really come up with coping strategies. It really only bugs me when it gets in the way of me doing things like studying for a test. I guess I have a tendency to make up entire fictional worlds around my daydreams and complex stories. I write them down or draw my characters often.

Anonymous

Date posted: 5y

@Nikki1809 I’m sure there are other people with maladaptive daydreaming who have coping strategies though.

Anonymous

Date posted: 5y

@chichi 24 I have thoughts of flying and being hero and sometimes thoughts of saving people will dying and they usually happen while listening to catchy music

chichi 24

Date posted: 5y

It makes me feel that I'm not the only one with them it's kinda a relief 😅😁

Anonymous

Date posted: 5y

Oh for sure. Definitely not the only one haha. Have you ever looked into maladaptive daydreaming disorder?

chichi 24

Date posted: 5y

@Nikki1809 I have done some research but I have no access to any of the treatment for it.

Anonymous

Date posted: 5y

@chichi 24 I dream all the time especially flying I thought it’s Normal

Anonymous

Date posted: 5y

@chichi 24 Yeah I honestly don’t even know how it’s treated haha. It’s not technically in the diagnostic manual yet.

chichi 24

Date posted: 5y

@Nikki1809 The fact that it isn't sucks. So I guess we just have to deal with it😐

chichi 24

Date posted: 5y

@intrusiveavenger It's normal if it doesn't affect u in any way

Anonymous

Date posted: 5y

@chichi 24 Yeah. There are spaces online where there are communities of people with maladaptive daydreaming. Definitely I always thought I was just weird with these elaborate and often graphic daydreams I’ve had since I can remember.

Anonymous

Date posted: 5y

@chichi 24 It kinda annoyed my parents they even sent me to the doctors when I was younger because they were worried

Fathomable

Date posted: 5y

I managed to quit maladaptive daydreaming pretty much entirely by learning some simple emotional processing techniques. I used to imagine plotlines with the Harry Potter characters and other ones of myself in different futures, some good some bad and I could never seem to control it going bad, I'd feel compelled to always imagine what happened next. Sounds bizarre to most people but it took up a lot, I mean a LOT of my time, and was very realistic at times, I definitely used it as escapism from my life, I had it very badly for around 3 years when I developed PTSD. It was just vastly easier to not live in reality, it helped me cope for a while and still do basic things with my life but I still ended up bedridden after a couple of years. It just went away 95% by itself after I did the stuff in a book called Letting Go by David Hawkins and it started being tolerable to live in the real world.

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