Discussion What is your way of dealing with daydreaming ?

[Buh-bye!]

I believe the right word is Maladaptive daydreaming but I would just refer to it as daydreaming. I was looking for possible solutions or insights on daydreaming, too much fantasizing or even overthinking. What helped you, with these things ? Maybe some YouTube video or channel, some insight, paragraph etc. I'd like to have a control on it and would appreciate further responses. YouTube videos are an easy way to understand certain things for me so I'd appreciate any channels or videos getting recommended too.

 

[dumbnhappy]

I do it for hours on end. It ruins my concentration and the harder life gets the more I do it. I feel the only way to get over it is by being busy OUTSIDE where you cant really pace back and forth or be distracted for too long without someone saying something

 

[amerie]

I have ADHD so I've been daydreaming literally since I was old enough to have a conscious. I also experienced early childhood trauma so alongside my ADHD it was a defense mechanism.

Honestly, is it really detrimental for you? I accept it as apart of my neurodivergence and how I cope with life. It's helps me with creativity and writing things on the spot and it amazes people and helps me get good grades on writing assignments. If you need it to cope with trauma then why stop?

But besides that if you really want to stop get yourself out of situations where you're prone to daydreaming. Don't listen to a lot of music and try to meditate so you can stay grounded in reality and with your surroundings.

 

[Scythe]

Who gives a shit, I can multi task, it keeps the brain distracted from worse thoughts and sometimes I don't need all of my brain to do something and might as well you know?

If it's hurting your day to day learn to multi-task, it's one of those things that the normies say is a bad habit cause they think it's weird when in reality it doesn't hurt anyone.

 

[FoxSauce]

Hmmmm well idk im able to snap back to reality.

I do it when im in a difficult situation or im bale to tune it out like yelling or disscusions that are loud.

Sometimes can happen like im under tons of stress

 

[Forever Sleep]

Not sure about maladaptive daydreaming but, 'The Crappy Childhood Fairy' on YouTube makes very good videos dealing with things like limerence. Not sure if you 'suffer' from that too. I always felt like they were related.

I can only really advise how I forced myself to get over limerent crushes. I would remind myself that they were limerence for starters. Remind myself that, while the fantasy was nice, it was causing me more harm in the long run. If I found myself drifting off into a daydream about them, I would tell myself to stop. I'd also try to picture something that would bring me back to reality- eg. finding out they now had a girlfriend and, how much that would hurt.