Maladaptive Daydreaming in ADHD
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- Опубліковано 22 лип 2024
- Do you think of yourself as an excessive daydreamer? Maybe do maladaptive dreaming too :) I have spent many hours in this state and I think the only thing that has really helped was obviously medication, but also mindfulness, meditation and yoga - although these don't stop me from having ADHD they can change my state of mind for a little while.
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Thats the story of my life. I mostly live in my head thinking of scenarios that will most likely never ever happen 😅 🙃 😕 😪 it takes up 95.9 percent of my day.
I have adhd and definetly have it,sometimes is so frustrating,i cant make it stop and my head would start hurting along with my stomach.I think my brain is always looking for some dopamine hits so i always think of somethin exciting and i would remain in that loop alot while not being able to concentate on my tasks.Meditating helps but its prety hard not to let my mind wonder,maybe in time with exercice.
That sucks that it gives you physical pain :( and yeah that makes sense and is probably why it happens.
Dealing with it my whole life.
Music is the trigger.
I can space out for an hours.
Be in my own world.
Interacting with people, dreaming out my fantasies.
My also ADHD.
If I don't work on 5 different tasks at the same time, I get bored and loose interest.
I had this since a was a child so i can 100% relate to this.
My root cause of Adhd is hypothyroidism cause i was born with it , just curious did you ever check your endocrine panels especially thyroid in my experience T4 levels can affect overthinking and daydreaming at least in my case
Dear regards and sry for my english i'm not a native speaker
That is really interesting. I have been tested for thyroid issues a few times over the years, mostly after the complaint of being tired a lot. My mum had that and graves disease and it runs in our family. Not had anything come up on the bloods yet though.
I have hypothyroidism and I’m getting tested for ADHD this month… how did you find out about this?
Dr Tracey Marks video explains it well, differentiating this with Mind wandering. I guess my problem is with mind wandering which short imaginations of scenarios, I sometimes imagine old times and imagine how I would joke with my friends and even laugh at bit after imagining that scene, but it's very short and part of mind wandering. She explains maladaptive daydreaming is deliberate fantasizing and is quite long like on steroids. Do share how do you meditate.
I'll check it out thank you and I meditate mostly at night before bed and I will do a guided meditation called yoga nidra.
@@FindingYourSerenity I am from India so i understand yoga; but I am curious how that yoga nindra is done, coz it seems like the regular attempt to sleep which we all do before sleeping :D lol
Can you tell how long did you take 10mg tablets of methylphenidate, and after how long should we increase the dose? I have not started yet, im just curious.
Sorry I've not taken that medication before. I take Atomoxetine.
For a moment I thought the timer was some new time management strategy, but it's better that it's garlic bread I think, hahaha. And oof, I think maladaptive daydream is definitely one of mine, and I think it can end up being the main thing I am focusing on, but, I feel like I put together a lifestyle where I can get away with it pretty often.
Haha yes :) and I've definitely done that too. For me it looks a bit like a hermit lifestyle but the place I work at now requires strong attention to detail so it's a good job I do it less really..
Interesting... What do you day-dream about? I am not surprised someone went to the trouble to call it maladaptive. I find it an interesting aspect of life and others as well. At times while reading a book I would be immersed in the world of the book and even add to the story in my mind. I don't think it would called maladaptive if one made a profession out of writing their day-dreams. Are they an escape? They can be, just like video games and media. Finally, I thought the garlic bread was a total non sequitur at the end. : )
A lot of my daydreaming in the past was about possibilities. I would make up scenarios in my head, what I would say to that person if I had the courage to talk to them, the dark memories of my past that still haunted me, I had a lot of intrusive thoughts/dreams though, I had a lot of resentment so that would come into it a lot, or whatever I am feeling... the anxiety-driven ones were the worst, how I would live my life if I didn't have to work or what I would do for work if I didn't rely on pay check to pay check... when I was at work I'd be daydreaming about all the adventures I'd be having in nature if I wasn't at work, in nature I would dream about it being an adventure as if I was in a book... lots of things really but these stand out the most. Today I daydream more about the past than the future but in a good way. I like nostalgia. I love to talk about the past with people who were there experiencing it too but I find that not everyone wants to talk about the past. I had some old school friends I tried to talk about memories with but they weren't interested... but I need that in my life. I do daydream about the future too. I am much more content with my life now so my daydreams are often more positive. I try and utilise it to create positive scenarios for things I'd usually be anxious about. I still dream of being in nature a lot though and not being at work...! I just find it constricting. Anyway, thanks and yeah I can totally believe that many writers are maladaptive daydreamers...