You could totally create award-winning media if you tried.
All of you fellow MDers will definitely hardcore relate to these.
You have compulsions (pace, rock back and forth, tap your foot, etc.).
Dustin Adams
Yes, this includes gesturing, clapping and any other compulsive behaviors you do while daydreaming.
MD has a lot of traits identical, or similar, to OCD.
You could totally create award-winning media if you tried.
I think its a great idea.
I mean, why shame someone for having such endless amounts of creativity?
Dramas, romances, horror books and movies, and anything else they could dream up.
People constantly compare you to someone with ADD and ask if you have ADD.
Or they yell at you for spacing out every three seconds.
I wasnt paying attention (sorry, I had to tell that joke).
:D Jokes aside, it is hard for us not to space out and daydream.
You talk to yourself, whisper to yourself, and/or mouth words youre saying in your fantasies.
You get embarrassed, depressed, and ashamed by your daydreaming tendencies.
But a lot of people dont realize how hard it is to daydream constantly.
It can lead to anxiety, depression, obsessions, derealization and/or depersonalization…etc.
Its a scary thing if you really think about it.
You feel emotions from your daydreams as if youre really living your daydreams in reality.
I swear, I wasnt trying to make the title of this one confusing… it just is.
Its basically a Rob Zombie film in my head at times).
As weird as it sounds, we cant control our emotions as well as we tell ourselves we can.
We can hide them, but thats not controlling them.
This can be a major source of embarrassment, shame, all those other negative emotions I mentioned earlier.
You look things up online, listen to music, watch stuff, or read to fuel your daydreams.
This one pretty much explains itself.
Sometimes though, our daydreams are fueled by these things even when we arent trying.
You hate being interrupted when youre knee-deep in a great fantasy.
You wish others understood you and your fantasies.
Maladaptive Daydreaming is still relatively new; many people know nothing about it yet.
You think of maladaptive daydreaming as a blessing and a curse.
Your mind comes up with such elaborate and vivid waking dreams… utilize them!
Write books and/or poems!
Use that creative brain of yours!
