Spectre
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- 5w4
Ew it's creepy how accurate this is. Idk if I actually have maladaptive daydreaming as an actual disorder, but I definitely daydream excessively to the point where it's difficult to keep up with the real world. This quote was especially accurate:
Ouch, I don't even like quotes.
Idk, I think excessive daydreaming (not necessarily maladaptive) this would be more common among the withdrawn types, though I can see idealistic types (7,1,4) also falling into this category.
I am not diagnosed either, but I am sure I am an exsessive daydreamer. It kind of screws up a lot of things.
I personally am more present than usual in conversations. Or at least when they are deep and when I am not disturbed all the time.
The passage below about the daydreaming from the video is quite interesting.
They are the feelings he didn't express, the words he didn't say, the journeys he never made, the beliefs he didn't defend. In short it is the life he hasn't lived.The life that is only accessible to him in fantasy
Also the part when its said its caused by craving for life hits home.
I have also read it could be caused by creativity that hasn't been expressed.
Overall, it seems that it is caused by a shortage of explorations.
Have you found ways to deal with the daydreaming?
I do the kind of pacing that is quite common among maladaptive daydreamers. I have become aware of it and force myself to snap out of it. It has become better, but the snapping out is rather exhausting.
Yes, I think the withdrawn types are more prone to daydreaming as well.