Fantasy-prone disorder (also known as fantasy personality disorder) is a disordered form of fantasy-prone personality disposition.
It is sometimes formed by childhood neglect and can cause someone with it to become dependent on maladaptive fantasies in order to function. Said functioning can also be stunted by these same fantasies.
These fantasies are considered real, and have the ability to take over the memory and thought process of said person. Entire personalities, versions of the self, and egos are instead created by people with FPD instead of being naturally formed.
hey maladaptive daydreaming fam, it's me again (girl we don't know you—
So, can I be honest with you?? recently I started doubting my diagnosis... they said i was in the schizo spectrum, but am i really?? So like, I've been digging around trying to find something and I came across fantasy prone personality?! that's literally me
even with antipsychotics, it's been hard separating myself from my little imaginary alter ego.... my para.... and I've been changing so much and the fact that it doesn't match him is excruciating. feels so damn wrong not to be him... can't wait to tell my therapist about this
anyways, lucky as I am, fantasy prone personality is not considered a disorder so there's no way psychology can help me, yaaaay 🫠 now I'm stuck with fantasilis AND adhd, and guess what? adhd is not considered a disorder in my country either, yaaay 👏👏
guess I'll die alone after all since I can't seem to comfortably be around anyone on this planet but my parents, but hey, at least in my imagination I'm married, I have a car and I have lived a thousand lives!! 🤪
Hey, I’m Sou and I’ve known I had MaDD since back when the only study out there called it “fantasy prone” and nobody took us seriously. I’m thrilled that there’s a community now, and I’m excited to join it.
All my paracosms are based on fiction or history, they all center around two main characters (although almost all of them have extensive, developed worlds) and I usually stick with one for months at a time before switching to another in my deck.
In addition to MaDD, which I’ve had for as long as I can remember, I’ve got a whole collection of disorders including anxiety and depression. I’m also totally unable to visualize things, including my daydreams.
If anyone is interested, I will gleefully talk about my paras and worlds. I’ve spent my whole life wanting to share them with someone and never finding anyone who wanted to know. I’ll answer questions about anything else too. I’m just really excited to meet other people like me and learn more about this thing we do.
At some point, fantasy prone disorder will get bad. It will hurt and you will lose some part of you as you continue to have these fantasies. They will quickly replace who you are and your memories as you delve back into your mind.
You'll lose track of time and energy as you think and behave differently. Some of us rock and some of us sway, others may pace and talk to ourselves. That doesn't matter. We're still people.
I think being able to safely communicate, stim, twitch, and mumble shouldnt be taken away from people who just want to do their jobs and go home. You shouldn't have to be seen as scary or unloved for it.
People with fantasy prone disorder shouldn't have to be seen as immature or too naive because we live in worlds crafted for our safety.
Is fpd applicable if the fantasies arent creative? Mine are basically always imaginary continuations of daily life when awake (ie I default to imagining doing what I plan to do instead of actually doing it and it takes conscious effort to move and leave the imagination) and become most difficult to come out from when triggered, otherwise it blends with reality and I function in the exocosm alongside my imagination. I can dissociate and imagine with my mental eyes and then come back and forget what happened in reality but when sober I don't think it actually happened- well, it feels like it anyway but I know they're separate realities. I'm also autistic so not sure if that would deem it inapplicable to me. OSDD/UDD isn't enough, Fpd fits.
Yes, I would say FPD fits in this case. I have many times in my own life where I cannot physically move because my fantasies are playing mundane things I want or need to do and how it could play out if I did it, land locking me in one area or making me frustrated when I experience a sun up from an episode.
The fantasies are yours, coming from your brain, they don't and can't always be about fiction or creativity. Right now, I can feel a fantasy episode right at the tip of my brain, so I am sorta dissociating while writing this in order to imagine myself saying these words to a friend or family member. I'll get stuck here writing and writing as if I am actually speaking verbally but I am not, which is why text sometimes sounds too natural or forcefully neutral.
TTheres also a sharp relationship between MADD and FPD that is often overlooked as them being thr same thing. Fantasies and daydreams are not the same, given that for many with FPD, one doesn't need to consistently have fantasizing thoughts, fantasy just has to rule or alter their life in significant ways to the point of lifelong indulgence. You don't need to constantly fantasize to have FPD, the possibility of fantasies and getting lost in it just have to be detrimental in a way.
Dreams help us to act on fulfilling the vision for our lives. Whereas, fantasies are our imaginations running freely. Dreams and fantasies..
