im MADD af

sideblog of everyoneisssad

[whitepeopletwitter]

[cryptidquinn-deactivated2021071]

when im playing out a daydream scenario in my head and i catch myself trying to rush to The Good Part™:

[mjalti]

I’m living my best life but like. in my head

[maddness-maddness]

paracosm || shadow tides

“The land can be bargained with, but the sea bows to no man.”

[maddhopex]

does anyone else feel like their character is real? Like your brain just cant comprehend the fact that this character is of your own creation and that they’re somewhere in the world living their lives as real people but at the same time you know they’re not real????????????????

[maddasfuck]

I hate phone calls, they give me such bad anxiety, but I also feel so judged whenever I say that I prefer emailing for work-related things. Like I get that they’re a lot slower, but it’s so much less stress on me.

Like I hate writing emails just as much as the next person, but I hate phone calls even more.

[maddasfuck]

madd makes being a (semi) functioning adult so hard I feel like I’m disappointing everyone by not doing all the things I’m supposed to be doing but I don’t have the energy and/or concentration that it requires. I feel like garbage

[really-madd]

omg it’s almost halloween which means it’s time to have spooky daydreams where my paras get stabbed- which isn’t any different from a normal daydream now that i think about it.

[ineachmaddworld]

MaDD is linked to other disorders?

People mention madd being linked to having other disorders, it’s just that I don’t think I have anything else. I mean there might be something, but nothing I know of. 

[madd-information]

Here’s a paper on the comorbidity of maladaptive daydreaming.

Highlights:

ADHD 77%

Anxiety 72%

Depression 67%

OCD 54%

Also notable:

82% scored high enough that a personality disorder was “probable”.

28% of MDers report having attempted suicide.

28% reported skin-picking behavior.

More research is needed to determine if MD precedes, follows or is independent from these disorders. 

[maddasfuck]

I’ve never heard of skin picking being paired with madd but it makes so much sense! One of my repetitive motions is picking at the skin around my nails, I’ve been trying to stop for forever it sucks...

[maladaptive-dreamer]

Psych2Go (one of my personal favorite YouTube channels) recently came out with a video on maladaptive daydreaming! All the information seems to be right except for their statement that MaDD is borne from trauma (although I even think they said that’s only usually the case).

[wellfuckthishellsiteiguess-deac]

i made this instead of writing

[starfallskitter]

im reblogging this instead of writing

[milkeyedmilkmaid]

“I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.”

— George Orwell, Why I Write (via suzywire)

[cloudybakery]

Am I funny yet

[spectralwiitch]

[homogayrot]

[charlesoberonn]

I made this last night and forgot to upload it

[panicatthecucumber]

“She dreams more often than she sleeps.”

— Jonny Ox

[maddlyinluv]

do you guys ever dream about your paras?? like, when you sleep? i had only ever dreamed of my paras once, for some reason i never have dreams relating to my daydreams. but today i had a dream about one of my paras, and it was so incredibly realistic. for a second i thought it was real. it was kind of intense.

[maddasfuck]

for a while I have often had dreams in the perspective of my parame sometimes it will also be in third person, the weird thing is that I still have trouble imagining what my paras would actually look like even though i’ve “seen” them in my dreams

[whimsicalpersephone-deactivated]

does pacing count as cardio