Maladaptive Daydreaming (a life story)

My MD life story.

Maladaptive Daydreaming (MD) is a [proposed] disorder in which an individual is excessively absorbed in an internal fantasy world in a manner that causes clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning (Somer, 2002).

Individuals with MD develop highly structured internal worlds with many different characters who interact as in a play or novel. The person is often a character in this internal world but has skills, qualities, social success, and other attributes that are missing in the outside world. The daydreaming often has an addictive or compulsive quality to it, but the individual knows that it is an internal fantasy world and is not delusional about it. MD may be accompanied by stereotyped movements and has several potential triggers such as music, boredom, or social isolation (Somer, Soffer-Dudek & Ross 2017).

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