Quitting Maladaptive Daydreaming
I’ve been maladaptive daydreaming for as long as I can remember. Intense, vivid fantasies where I was the hero, or in which terrible things were happening to me. I now know that it was a coping skill that helped me disassociate from the trauma I was constantly facing. I’m pushing 30, have a full time job, in therapy weekly trying to heal, but I still do it several hours every day. Can anyone relate to this? Is it possible for me to stop? I feel like I won’t even know who I am without it, but I’m tired of wasting so much of my life on it. It makes me feel like I’m insane.
Posted Apr 29, 2026, 7:48 AM UTC
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