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An Introduction to Maladaptive Daydreaming
An Introduction to Maladaptive Daydreaming
An Introduction to Maladaptive Daydreaming
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An Introduction to Maladaptive Daydreaming

By Pen

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Losing yourself in excessive daydreaming? Maladaptive Daydreaming is an actual condition undergoing study. Pen shares her own personal experiences and offers helpful suggestions on how to channel and manage the daydreaming habit.

Do you experience a loss of time because you spend that time daydreaming? Do you drive from one place to another and cannot recall how you arrived at your destination? Do you experience depression or irritability because you cannot spend time daydreaming?

If you answered “yes” to any or all of the above questions, you may suffer from Maladaptive Daydreaming.

Though a new area of study and, as yet, unrecognized by the medical community, more and more people are coming forward to discuss their issues with excessive daydreaming.

As a Maladaptive Daydreamer for most of her life, Pen shares her own personal experiences with this condition: how it all began, the ups and downs of it all and helpful suggestions on how to channel and manage the daydreaming habit.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherPen
Release dateJul 30, 2014
ISBN9781310264849
An Introduction to Maladaptive Daydreaming
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Pen was bitten by the writing bug at the age of ten. She has been feverishly writing ever since. A native Georgian she lives in the Atlanta area.

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    An Introduction to Maladaptive Daydreaming - Pen

    An Introduction to Maladaptive Daydreaming

    Pen

    (A Maladaptive Daydreamer)

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    Table of Contents

    What IS Maladaptive Daydreaming?

    Confessions of a Maladaptive Daydreamer: The Upside

    Confessions of a Maladaptive Daydreamer: The Downside

    Managing and Channeling Your Maladaptive Daydreaming

    Maladaptive Daydreaming: Habit, Compulsion or Addiction?

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    Daydreaming while watching television. Even if it is a favorite program, a Maladaptive Daydreamer may find his or her thoughts drifting towards daydreaming.

    What IS Maladaptive Daydreaming?

    Maladaptive Daydreaming is still very much in the early stages of study. And since it is a very private and personal activity, many people who may suffer from it are reluctant to share their daydreaming addiction with anyone.

    When The Monkees sang Daydream Believer in the sixties, research was just beginning to reveal the beneficial aspects of daydreaming.

    Daydreaming has long gotten a bad rap. For centuries, daydreamers have been considered lazy and unproductive. However, thanks to research conducted by Jerome L. Singer of Yale University and John S. Antrobus of the City College of New York, it was established that daydreaming has beneficial effects. Enhancing creativity and problem-solving skills, relaxation and relieving boredom are just a few.

    Daydreaming is part of the imagination process. Ask any writer or artist and you’re liable to get a 30-minute diatribe extolling the virtues of daydreaming for their craft. Without daydreaming as it is part of the imagination process, Walt Disney may never have sketched that little mouse.

    What is Maladaptive Daydreaming?

    As defined by Dr. Eli Somér who first proposed the phrase, Maladaptive Daydreaming is extensive fantasy activity that replaces human interaction and/or interferes with academic, interpersonal, or vocational functioning. [1]

    MD in More Detail

    Far from being The Life of Walter Mitty most people find MD to

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