#Why dont you guys actually read genuine research and get better reading comprehension

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Bitch get ur head together and stop maladaptive daydreaming. Ur life is ltierally gonna fall apart if u keep this up

Anon do you know what maladaptive daydreaming is?

It’s not writing fanfiction. It’s not even regular daydreaming. We know those things are fake. Maladaptive daydreaming is an extreme response to trauma in which you imagine a very well-developed, fake world/life, and you prefer it greatly to real life. You stop going out and hanging out with people just to live in the fake narrative because to you, it’s more comfortable and perfect and easy in comparison to how difficult your life is.

Of course, maladaptive daydreaming and daydreaming have similarities (nothing is black and white with this, it’s kind of a spectrum) but daydreaming is generally a very human thing. People fantasize about what the future may hold or what an alternative, fictional version of events could be. It doesn’t mean everyone is delusional and convinced this is really happening. JRR Tolkien considered escapism to be a huge part of real life and that it’s necessary to fiction in some aspects. There’s a middle ground where you can write things for comfort or fun, take enjoyment in them, and still be aware that they’re fake.

Daydreaming on its own even isn’t bad. Daydreaming can help you maintain a goal in your head (a doable, realistic one) and it can be beneficial for creativity and stress relief. Everyone has daydreamed for several centuries at one point or another. Maybe read up on it before you assume it’s entirely bad. And again I know this sounds like MD but it isn’t, because MD is when you start becoming delusional and ignoring real life. There’s a difference.

And of course, with any psychological concept, the internet runs it into the ground until it doesn’t really mean anything anymore, or they misdiagnose people and spread misinformation. All so you can feel special because you think you know more, and you can dunk on others for not being as superior or mentally healthy as you, and you “mean well” but in actuality you dilute these terms so much that the people who really need help get drowned out.

There’s almost a pseudo-religious take here where you think it’s like a mental illness/the devil and you’re telling me to repent before I ruin my life. Thanks but no thanks, I know my life and I feel that I have my priorities in order to correctly determine whether or not my daydreaming is at a detriment to me.