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https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Understanding-the-Relationship-between-Media-Use-of-Uslu-Uslu/849c961a6c60a15114b5a3ba57210343788ae91f/figure/2 this is a link to where it should show common triggers to daydreaming and I think I you become aware of triggers you can cut down the time you MD at least. Personally whenever I start getting rlly overwhelmed from MD I force myself to sleep and listen to my breathing. Another way is to go on a run bc you'll be to focused on how tired you are rather than your MD (or any exercise that you find stops it). And last thing is talking to someone in person and online like my fav discord where you have to be active in convo.

I actually turned my maladaptive daydreams into a short story collection and published it on Amazon. 🤟I also plan on working my way up to a novel and then a screenplay for a short film eventually.🎂💯

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I am also thinking about starting a discord for people with MDD that really want to write but either dont know how to streamline their ideas, or know how to finish.

I would suggest doing short stories/skits first and then working your way up to a novel or screenplay. An accountability partner works wonders as well!

Give this one a try https://www.academia.edu/25793652/Childhood_Antecedents_and_Maintaining_Factors_in_Maladaptive_Daydreaming

Or this; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299384352_Childhood_Antecedents_and_Maintaining_Factors_in_Maladaptive_Daydreaming

My daydreams are private, but they are realistic people living in the modern world populating my made up country

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=evea

I have different daydreams with different main characters, but they are all related in some way...mostly distantly; either 3rd cousins or distantly related by marriage. I've made a family tree.

Hi! I did. I’ve suffered with MDD since childhood, but about four years ago, a friend told me that writing about my daydreaming world might help. The thing is, this world has been going strong for 23 years now and is showing no signs of stopping. I started to write in snippets, a scene here, a scene there. And then I finally decided that I would write a book. Before this point, I had no intentions of ever becoming a writer, and I had rarely read a book in my life either, so I was definitely a MDDer before I was an author. My fist book came out one year ago, and the feedback has been amazing. It’s an amazing feeling- it feels like all that wasted time daydreaming my life away has been validated.

Anyway, I know someone mentioned my book (Almost Human) further up this thread, but if anyone would like to check it out, books 1&2 are available on Amazon now, and book 3 is due for release next month 😃 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098TMZ8MH

Sounds similar to Gabor Mate's theory that childhood trauma is related to ADHD https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scattered-Origins-Attention-Disorder-Paperback/dp/B08V4PM4RX/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?adgrpid=119023978298&gclid=Cj0KCQjw5ZSWBhCVARIsALERCvyVyGOO0mfPpdagGE5iRdGyR595rL6S_c--UFLnsfP5a8biq-rlyzQaAtw-EALw_wcB&hvadid=49842502813...

These brushes are the best! I used to go through so much pain trying to detangle my hair and these brushes really make quick work of it. Also silk pillowcases help with tangles and frizz but my head kept slipping downwards when asleep lol. I've also used a silk hair wrap for when I really don't want to mess up my hair.

These brushes are the best! I used to go through so much pain trying to detangle my hair and these brushes really make quick work of it. Also silk pillowcases help with tangles and frizz but my head kept slipping downwards when asleep lol. I've also used a silk hair wrap for when I really don't want to mess up my hair.

https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/schizotypal-personality-disorder#1

> Being preoccupied with fantasy and day-dreaming

My most recent psychotherapist spoke of schizotpyal pd as having a greater relationship with my own mind than anyone else.

I started this weekend. I had to stay away from listening to music - but I found that listening to background music and reading combined worked pretty well. I understand the before bedtime, and being on a bus. Do you like to journal? That might help?

This is the website I use for background noise and its helped me at work when I need to focus. mynoise.net

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Idk what to tell you other than buy a door lock off Amazon (so your parents don’t have the “key”) and do it in your room. What they don’t see won’t hurt them 🙄

I think today is going to be a 'sit around and read' day. I picked up Complex PTSD by Pete Walker, mostly because I've been lurking in r/CPTSD and found it very relatable. I reached out to a therapist yesterday and am waiting to hear back. Trying to stop MADD has brought up a lot of internal stuff for me, which is good because it obviously needs to be dealt with, but has also left me feeling a bit lost and aimless. So hopefully I'll find a good therapist who can help set me in the direction that I need to be going.

So for right now I'm not aiming to stop MADD because since attempting that a lot of my other coping mechanisms (which, believe it or not, are even less healthy than MADD) have popped up, and I don't want to spiral into those. I'm in a bit of a holding pattern right now, and I'm OK with that. I'm hoping that if I start dealing with everything underneath my bad coping behaviours, the behaviours themselves will be a lot easier to deal with.

I use these apps to do my paras. They're the bomb

Male: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zephyo.LivePortraitMakerM

Female:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zephyo.LivePortraitMaker

Haven't been doing very well lately. I've been in a bit of a funk, so I haven't been doing my healthy habits and have instead have been engaging in my unhealthy ones, including MADD. I know I need to work harder on my resiliency and sticking to doing the good things, even when I don't feel like it. I just keep reminding myself it is one of the many mental/spiritual 'muscles' that I am trying to build.

Picked up a book on childhood emotional neglect and it resonated with me. It's funny - I think for a lot of us, we spend our childhoods trying to just survive, then as adults go through periods where we try to do our best in spite of our childhood wounds and keep messing it up, and then eventually come to a place where we look back at our childhoods and go 'OK, what the hell was that about?'

I read a lot of self-help books in general, and I find when I read something I really resonate with I've started talking to my characters about it, my past life experiences, why I am the way I am now, etc. Which I think is a healthier way of daydreaming rather than saving the world and having adoring fans. Probably what would be healthiest is to actually talk to someone IRL about it, but I have this fear of not being taken seriously/being seen as a whiner, yada yada. But maybe one day I can bridge that gap.

This is how my MD started too. I'm am adult now and still have an MD family.

I've found that doing things I wish I could have done as a child seems to help. It's not like I can go back and fix my childhood but I guess I can live a 'second childhood'.

There is a book that really helped me a lot with this, it's called Running on empty by Dr Jonice Webber: https://www.amazon.com/Running-Empty-Overcome-Childhood-Emotional/dp/161448242X (DM me if you want a PDF). It didn't fix my MD but it really helped with me feeling depressed about my childhood.