#maladaptive daydream

[girlofhoneyandglass]

MALADAPTIVE DAYDREAMERS I HAVE AN APP FOR Y'ALL

So, it's called Story Plotter on android and you can make a load of characters as well as their whole backstories and also plot and very handy diagramms where you show the characters relations to each other.

This is what part of mine looks like, its very easy to navigate and you have infinite options for everything!

#my paras<3 #maladaptive daydreaming #maladapting daydreaming disorder #actually maladaptive #maladaptive daydream #maladaptive daydreamer #madd positivity #actually madd #madd community #madd #madd things #immersive daydreaming #daydreaming

[dreamdropsystem]

Maladaptive Daydreaming things

making AMVs of with your paracosms

losing sleep to daydreaming

lying in bed daydreaming

acting out daydreaming

having multiple paracosms you switch from

daydreaming in everyday life, getting lost in daydreaming when you're supposed to be doing things

daydreaming mid conversation

listening to music to get you in a daydreaming mood

starting to daydream after getting triggered

not being able to talk about your paracosms cause theres so much of it and its very complex

daydreaming irl scenarios to see all the options that could happen

maladaptive daydreaming instead of other coping mechanisms like cutting

#group post #madd #maladaptive daydreaming things #actually maladaptive #maladaptive daydreamer #maladaptive daydream #maladaptive daydreaming #daydream #daydreamer #daydreaming #dreamer #dreaming #dream #para #paras #parasocm #paracosms

[barramundi]

hey maladaptive daydream community it's me again (who

so, after going through assessment (?) with a neuropsychologist and a psychiatrist, turns out my maladaptive daydreaming was me being schizoid 🫠 yay now i know that I have schizoid personality disorder AND adhd!! kind of a wild ride.. at first I was kinda shocked but after processing it, I realized that both these conditions literally make perfect sense with everything I feel and experience.. wow just wow

so yeah, I started taking antipsychotics and here's what happened: my veritbond disappeared. literally disappeared; he's gone, Lowell is gone (his name is Lowell).. ok wait, he didn't disappear completely, I still think about him and visit his stories but it just feels like he has merged with me and now he isn't around anymore.... bc he's just me yk......... hmm.... and strangely, I don't feel bad about it (I felt lonely for a couple days but I'm good now thanks to antidepressants too)

I've been talking to myself less, losing myself in daydreams less and I feel more in touch with reality in general. I still daydream and I still feel my imagination run wild sometimes, but in a more controlled, organized way. the chaos has calmed down you know

so... idk what I want out of this post, maybe give a heads up to anyone seriously struggling with maladaptive daydreaming like I was... maybe you're in the schizo spectrum?? I wish these assessments and diagnostics were more accessible UGH anyway thanks guys you are brave and cool, never forget that!!!!!

#maladaptive daydreamer #maladapting daydreaming disorder #maladaptive daydream #madd paras #madd #madd things #madd problems #actually madd #maladaptive daydreaming #schizoid #schizospec #schizo spectrum #schizoid personality disorder

[starspd]

begging people to understand that maladaptive daydreaming isnt just "likes to daydream" or "vivid imagination". no, it means i struggle to control when i daydream. most of the time i cannot listen to music or funny media without it triggering a daydream. i often spend hours a day daydreaming, and if im not at a place like school or in a car i cannot stop myself from pacing while i do it, even as im in excruciating pain from it (chronic pain). it can be physically painful when i try and resist daydreaming (though luckily that has started to get better).

it has impacted my mental health in many ways. i consume media that hurts me because its good for the daydream. it has impacted me participating in activities i want to do because its hard to stop daydreaming until it dies down on its own. it has impacted my memory. some days its easier, in some situations it can feel beneficial (though is that just the "coping skill" part of it talking?), but others it gets in the way of everything.

#mental health #actually mentally ill #maladaptive daydreaming #maladapting daydreaming disorder #maladaptive daydream #maladaptive daydreaming disorder #madd #mental illness #obsessive daydreaming #actually madd #actually maladaptive #maladaptive coping #maladaptive behaviors #maladaptive problems #maladaptive daydreamer

[alyssasmaddworld]

that sickly sweet feeling you get when daydreaming a love scenario and it almost makes you a bit nauseated at how sweet it is >>>>>>>>

#maladaptive daydreaming #maladaptive daydream #maladaptive daydreaming disorder #daydreamer #daydream #immersive daydreaming #neuronarrator #neuronarrating #actually MADD #actuallyMADD #MADD

[lilqu33rboi]

anyone else with madd & autism find themselves repeating the same daydreams over and over again, especially when stressed? i think it's because i like to have a sense of consistency when things seem uncertain, but maybe it's just a me thing, idk 🤷🏼

#actually autistic #autism #asd #autism spectrum disorder #autistic teen #disability #disabled #actually madd #maladapting daydreaming disorder #maladaptive daydream #maladaptive daydreamer #maladaptive daydreaming

[justanotherstardrop]

Maladaptive daydreaming + dissociation = disaster

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[madmadder]

People have been sending me messages about MaDD I am genuinely so happy like. Yes please let's share imaginary people together and get excited over their silly selves I beg of you

#maladaptive daydreaming #maladaptive daydream #maladaptive daydreamer #madd

[autisticdreamdrop]

listening to same music, stimming, pacing til feet hurt, daydreaming to cope, stuck in our head

#group post #blurry #autism #autistic #maladaptive daydream #maladaptive daydreaming #maladaptive daydreamer #actually madd #madd #actually maladaptive #actually autism #actually autistic #actually compulsive #compulsions #compulsion

[vlupshittous]

Finally making my intro post🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

My name is Eve and I use she/her pronouns. My paracosm started when I was 10... it grew out of something my dad and I used to do that we called "talkplay" which was basically like playing D&D without any of the external resources. Dad would give me a situation, I would say what I my actions were and we played out entire adventures this way.

I distinctly remember playing with Legos on my grandma's carpet one day when I was 10 and building a medicine cat den from Warriors... then I decided, hey I'm going to pretend characters from my other favorite books are coming in for care too and I need to fix them up.

And the Guardian World was born.

I'll make more posts about the timeline/mechanics/history/locations of the Guardian World, but the main idea is that Guardians are sort of an artificial species (they can start as any species and then be reborn and trained) that have the ability to bend one of the elements like in ATLA. They can also teleport through space and time and dimensions at will, something 10 year old me named blipping. This allows Guardian me to go into any world I want to.

From this, the biggest influences into my world have been the Legend of Drizzt series, Dragon Age, K Project, actual history (lol), the hilariously mediocre Warcraft movie (but not the game??), Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrel, and most recently Baldur's Gate 3.

Guardians link themselves to Guardees and are then able to sense whenever their Guardee is in need and blip to their location. Guardians also live 100x the length that they would have lived as their original species, so human Guardians would get ~8,000 years but high elf Guardians would be neigh immortal.

The Guardee's life force is bonded to the Guardian so when the Guardian dies, so do all the Guardees. The trade off is that they could live for eons, or they could be killed at anytime through no fault of their own.

Most Guardians are polygamists and they have exceptional strength due to their elemental magic. They're very OP and Mary Sue, but this is a paracosm, not a fanfic and these are paras and not OCs so I really won't apologize for making my fictional self as powerful as I want.

There are some big changes happening in the Guardian World rn that are taking it away from it's roots, but those are the basics!

I look forward to posting more and learning about other people's paracosms!

#madd community #madd #paracosm #maladaptive daydream #maladaptive daydreaming #immersive daydreaming #guardian world

[escapedaudios]

It is with immense pride that I present part two of Neon Wings. I put a lot into this episode and I think it's one of the best episodes of anything I've ever made. Strap in, it's going to be a wild ride.

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[girlofhoneyandglass]

SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP because WHY CANT THEY BE REAL please make them real, i need them right now i cant do this not without them, please why wont you give them to me please i need them i need and honest, genuine hug, i need a loving kiss i need a heartfelt touch please

SOBBING BECAUSE WHY CANT THEY BE REAL PLEASE I CANT DO THIS WITHOUT THEM I CANT I CANT I CANT I CANT

IM SORRY I CANT

(this post is about maladaptive daydreaming paras, not about comfort and fictional characters)

#maladapting daydreaming disorder #my paras<3 #evan<3 #harley<3 #maladaptive daydreaming #actually maladaptive #maladaptive daydream #maladaptive daydreamer #genuinly had a breakdown about this last night #evan was there trying to comfort me but i couldn't explain it to him without hurting and confusing him #so i just lay there crying while he hugged me #this probably sounds pretty insane to a lot of people #Its not insane to me #its comforting even when its not

[dreamdropsystem]

coping by daydreaming when literally any small inconvenience happens lmao

#group post #madd #vent #maladaptive daydreaming disorder #maladaptive behaviors #maladaptive daydreamer #maladaptive coping #maladaptive daydream #maladaptive daydreaming #actually maladaptive #maladaptive problems #daydreaming #daydreamer #daydream #dreamer #dreaming #dream

[barramundi]

alrighty maladaptive daydreaming community, I have news (who—

so apparently I have mixed personality disorders, I have traits of both schizoid AND schizotypal so!!!! yes sir I have a hard time keeping up with reality how did you guess!!!

but in all seriousness, if daydreams are affecting your life, especially if it's causing you some kind of paranoia, ideas of reference or like magical thinking etc, do consider seeing a professional about it!! you might be in the schizo spectrum!!!

again, take care and never forget that you are so brave and cool!!!

#maladaptive daydream #madd paras #actually madd #maladaptive daydreaming #madd #maladapting daydreaming disorder #maladaptive daydreamer #schizospec #schizo spectrum #schizoid personality disorder #schizoid #schizotypal #schizotypal personality disorder

[crash-freak]

I have this world in my head that is the only reality I care about. I don’t care about those around me, I just want to be with the people that I created. The pain of never being able to live in that reality is too much to bear, sometimes.

#maladaptive daydreaming #maladaptive daydream #maladaptive daydreamer #actually madd #madd

[alyssasmaddworld]

there's this level of dissociation that goes hand in hand with daydreaming and i feel like it's something i wouldn't know how to begin explaining to somebody who's anti-endo.

maladaptive daydreaming is not inherently caused by trauma. it's considered something you use to cope with it. but for a LOT of people, and as confirmed in multiple studies, it is a dissociative disorder. there's even a level of plurality with it.

you have these people in your head, and you cant destroy them. a lot of them can feel like REAL people. you create worlds, plot lines, and you connect with these characters in a way where they slowly become their own being. their own person. how is this ANY different from being plural?

the answer is: it's really not. if you view plural as synonymous with systemhood then maybe i can see why you'd have a problem with the phrasing, but based off of the actual definitions of plural, maladaptive daydreaming fits the criteria.

the next issue that people tend to have with maladaptive daydreaming being considered plural is that maladaptive daydreaming isn't its own disorder. but something doesnt need to be a disorder for it to be significant in the mental health industry.

a common "rebuttle" of endogenic systems is that they "appropriate" other cultures, but what most people making this argument fail to realize is that, this is HOW culture works. western culture is actively affected by the cultures of other areas. do you genuinely believe that theres not a single Buddhist in america practicing tulpulmacy? that this is SOLELY a non-western phenomenon? then why is "traditional traumagenic" mentioned at all, and not JUST traumagenic?

but there are articles that talk about the importance of listening to the internet, and the words they've cultivated. something i've been told is irrelevant because "an endo made that word" IS BEING heard by therapists all across the globe, not just in america.

"the reader is reminded that culture is dynamic rather than static, meaning that just as our understanding of the online community is different today than it was twenty years ago, this will continue to shift and evolve into the future as well"

things CHANGE. research ADVANCES. and with that, we also know that maladaptive daydreaming is BEYOND VALID on the dissociative spectrum. it has ALWAYS been there, it just wasn't considered a disordered behavior before the 2000s.

on top of this, there's a study that further affirms it's place in the endogenic sphere specifically.

despite this, her brain scans showed "great activity in the ventral striatum, the part of the brain that lights up when an alcoholic is shown images of a martini. Frankly it was super strong"

this means she isn't just mind wandering. mind wandering is what people THINK daydreaming is.

"Mind wandering refers to the occurrence of thoughts that are not tied to the immediate environment—thoughts that are not related to a given task at hand"

mind wandering lights up the Default Mode Network side of the brain, the DMN. the DMN controls Autobiographical information, Memories of collection of events and facts about one's self, Self-reference, Referring to traits and descriptions of one's self.

maladaptive daydreaming has its own dissociative absorption, and it affects the brain differently than mind wandering. it's a proper form of dissociation.

and..would you look at that?? spiritual practices are mentioned. i wonder which endogenic system that reminds me of! (much love to sophie!). it's just further credence towards the fact that non-traumatic systems can exist. why else would maladaptive be on the spectrum, honestly?

trauma doesn't CAUSE maladaptive daydreaming. trauma doesnt cause dissociative absorption. they are ALL coping mechanisms as a way to deal with whatever trauma may be going on-- or it can literally be a choice in the sense that you can actively choose to get absorbed into a book, or how you choose to maladaptive daydream. you can let it interfere with your life and become debilitating and disordered (because sometimes people dont WANT to change) but this doesnt mean it's traumatic.

with all this being said, how is this not a valid presentation of plurality?

#pro endo #endogenic #endo friendly #maladaptive daydream