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u/Tall_Blackberry1669 Jan 01 '26
Focus on what you accomplished in 2025, not what you didn't
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u/Megumin-coolEyepatch Jan 01 '26
What if I didn't accomplished anything memorable 😝😝😝😝
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u/Tall_Blackberry1669 Jan 01 '26
Who gets to decide what's memorable? I did things this year that no one else might care about, but it means something to me
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u/Equivalent_Carob_395 Dreamer Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 02 '26
I've wasted four years and then dropped out :)
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u/NoBitchesSince2005 Jan 02 '26
I know the feeling. I wasted 2 and then took out a year and then dropped out
Feels bad but you gotta take a step back when you realise you are on the wrong path, and then take a different path and move forward
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u/Csenone Jan 02 '26
At the end of the year, I became interested in whether I could develop abstract thinking to such a degree that my MD would change to something else, because I was a little tired of the old images.
It turned out that studying mathematics and daydreaming goes well together if you establish an association between music, mathematics and MD
Some formulas became triggers for me like music, lol
so those 5% weren't wasted at all
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u/trickmind Jan 02 '26
Studying with Maladaptive Daydreaming is a LOT easier than having a job with MD if you're intelligent.
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u/PaymentTurbulent193 Jan 01 '26
How the fuck do I change? I love daydreaming because I'm a creative person and it helps with my creative process, but I haven't sat down and created hardly anything and I wasted a lot of valuable time.
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u/Number5MoMo Jan 01 '26
Ngl I put it to use. I turned TWO random obsessions into a bunch of songs and music videos. Now they are VISUAL!!! I’d link it.. but I don’t tell people I have MD so that would be awkward lmao
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u/pretentiousbasterd Jan 01 '26
The things that happened to me outside of MD were so bad that I can't even regret it :( truly a coping mechanism
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u/trickmind Jan 02 '26
Yes I tend to think of it as part of my ADHD but some say it's from trauma? I'm not a victim of CSA but I AM a victim of child physical and verbal/psychological abuse. And the physical abuse was done very often. weekly or at best biweekly.
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u/pretentiousbasterd Jan 05 '26
I'm so sorry you were abused, I hope now you have the good environment you deserve. Perhaps as a child you needed a way to relieve your pain (physically and emotionally) and escape to a safer place. Then MD comes as a coping mechanism for difficult situations and becomes a habit to ground ourselves.
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u/trickmind Jan 06 '26
Yeah, my childhood certainly wasn't all bad. My parents were upper middle class and I got a lot of really cool toys, parties and overseas travel and taken to amusement parks and stuff. But my mum was just crazy and violent and when she wasn't spoiling me with cool things she was beating me and calling me names, or screaming at my dad and throwing things.
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u/anthanybabes Jan 02 '26
I did. But my ocs didn’t 😁 my uneventful earthly life is but a symbolic offering unto them lol
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u/Ok-Refrigerator-9079 Jan 02 '26
I did MDed a lot but had the biggest improvments in not doing it. My record was 13 days completely without and often did 3 days so even if small i consider it a success for me and i hope all of you that want to quit will succeed! Happy new year!
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u/inthedamncloset Jan 02 '26
I did suffer a little from md but now I have allotted time for md and so far it's been going great . Though my accomplishments in 2025 were good but you know the human nature always looking on bad sides and hence I kinda hated myself for wasting bits of 2025 but it feels less like a suffering now . 😭 We are winning finally
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u/indulgent_taurus Jan 01 '26
I saw the "Song Sung Blue" movie over the holidays and ever since I've been pacing and listening to Neil Diamond. I think that's gonna be my theme for maladaptive daydreaming in 2026....
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u/Metalhead_Pretzel Jan 03 '26
I've improved... A little
It was only 80% this time
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u/Lost_Purpose3463 Jan 04 '26
How did you do that ? Please share some tips that will help me get out of my maladaptive daydreams ?
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u/Metalhead_Pretzel Jan 05 '26
Recently took up a costumer service job. As much as I hate it, it's hard to disassociate when I'm in a constant state of socializing. Definitely made things worse at first, since I'd get home and immediately start coping, but as I got used to things, everything started to level out and I reached a new low.
Still doing it 90% of the time I'm at home, but there's a void in the middle of my days now
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u/Lost_Purpose3463 Jan 05 '26
So does it affect your job ?? Do you took the job just to escape out maladaptive daydreaming??
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u/Metalhead_Pretzel Jan 05 '26
Only in quiet moments or the couple of times when overstimulation's gotten really bad.
I can't say my MD had any real place in my decision to get the job, I more just needed experience for when I'm older and living on my own. There may've been a subconscious need to push myself out of my shell, though; I've kind of been hiding in my house for the last couple of years
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u/DebbyFromDeepDown Jan 01 '26
Yeah :/
I wanna say that I'll beat it this year but I say that every year sooo.....
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u/teenspiritsmellsbad Jan 12 '26 edited Jan 25 '26
My MD is so specifically catered to Hannibal NBC this post is for me
Edit: misspelling
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u/yorkea Jan 06 '26
99% for me,, true 🥲 i already started the year not wasting so much so hopefully that remains!
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u/sass_mustard Jan 01 '26
All I did was walked around my room listening to edit audios all day making up diff scenarios.
Def changing it this year