Dimmer – Page 11 – Maladaptive Daydreaming Center

1Apr

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Media

Bustle Article Covers MD

Why Maladaptive Daydreaming is All Over Your For You Page Awareness of Maladaptive Daydreaming has gotten a boost as people continue to cope with lock-downs and Covid restrictions across the world. Helped along, in no small part, by the popular online platform of TikTok. On TikTok, videos with the hashtag #maladaptivedaydreaming have over 12 million views, thanks to people exploring the topic during the pandemic. Acting out scenes in your bedroom, concocting an intense storyline set in the Marvel universe while brewing tea — it's all fair game. And there's research to show the phenomenon isn't isolated to TikTok: A study of patients in 70 countries published in Frontiers in Psychiatry in November found that COVID-19, with its unique (and awful) combination of social isolation and...

An interview with the film-maker behind “The Daydreamers”

31Mar

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Arts, Media

An interview with the film-maker behind “The Daydreamers”

Thomas Renckens talks to 2Doc about the first documentary film on Maladaptive Daydreaming. (an English translation) What made you so interested in exploring the psyche? “I grew up in Friesland – a rural region in the north of the Netherlands – and I think this greatlyinfluenced the theme of my films. As a child, I always used to be quite bored. There wasn’tmuch to do in Friesland. I would often lock myself in my room, and created different fantasyworlds in my head. It was a way for me to keep myself entertained. I think I’ve always had anurge not to be present in the real world. I think the fact that I was gay also played a part. Ialways felt different from others. Because of that, the films I make often deal with the themeof fantasy and escapism.” How did you come up with the id...

31Mar

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Research

Call for Participation: French speakers

Recherche rêverie compulsive Bonjour ! Je m'appelle Marina, je suis étudiante en Master 2 de psychologie et je conduis actuellement une recherche sur La relation entre la rêverie compulsive, les émotions et la présences d'évènements de vie négatifs. J'aurais besoin de participant.e.s qui ont au moins 18 ans et qui seraient d'accord pour passer questionnaire en 2 parties dont une en visio conférence (zoom). Je tiens à préciser que la partie en visio conférence est un questionnaire sur la présence d'évènements traumatiques donc soyez avertis pour cela. Toutes les données sont anonymes et vous avez la possibilité de vous retirez à tout moment. Si vous êtes intéressé.e. vous pouvez m'envoyer un message privé, vous pouvez également partager l'annonce. Passez une excellente journéecontact: u...

Maladaptive Daydreaming in an Adult Italian Population During the COVID-19 Lockdown

25Mar

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Research

Maladaptive Daydreaming in an Adult Italian Population During the COVID-19 Lockdown

New Maladaptive Daydreaming study published by Italian team. A new study was published that looked at the experiences of over 6,000 Italian adults. Findings point to MD having a detrimental effect on MDers in lockdown rather than serving as an effective coping strategy. Click here to view the study or read the abstract below. During the COVID-19 outbreak, individuals with or without mental disorders may resort to dysfunctional psychological strategies that could trigger or heighten their emotional distress. The current study aims to explore the links between maladaptive daydreaming (MD, i.e., a compulsive fantasy activity associated with distress and psychological impairment), psychological symptoms of depression, anxiety, and negative stress, and COVID-19-related variables, such...

Phenomenological analysis of maladaptive daydreaming associated with internet gaming addiction: a case report

19Mar

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Research

Phenomenological analysis of maladaptive daydreaming associated with internet gaming addiction: a case report

Maladaptive Daydreaming Associated with Internet Gaming Addiction Researchers from New Delhi, India, recently published an academic paper detailing the case of a 16 year old boy with both Maladaptive Daydreaming and a gaming addiction. The paper talks about his therapy and management, read the abstract below: Maladaptive daydreaming (MD) is an immersive fantasy activity that leads to distress and socio-occupational dysfunction. MD has many features suggestive of behavioural addiction, but research exploring the phenomenology of this clinical construct is limited. MD has also been purported to be a maladaptive strategy to cope with distress, but often leads to uncontrollable absorption in fantasy world, social withdrawal and neglected aspects of everyday life. In this paper, we repo...

19Mar

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Announcement, Resource

Support for MD on Zoom

Maladaptive Daydreaming Community Support Group User Scole has started a support group which meets on Zoom weekly. Two times are available, one Friday and one Sunday, to accommodate a variety of time zones. Users get together (video not required) and discuss their experiences in a guided discussion. As of now the group sits at about 3 members, meeting invites are posted on both Discord and Reddit. If you're interested in taking part, or want to learn more, join the Discord for more information.

17Mar

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Advise

Community Tricks and Advise

Top 5 tips from r/maladaptivedreaming The Maladaptive Daydreaming subReddit, r/maladaptivedreaming, keeps an ongoing thread of community generated comments that members can add to. These are methods which other MDers have found success with in their own lives and are left for others who may find them helpful. Below are the top five most upvoted comments from the original archived post. IDownvoteMyOwnStuff:Recently I found out that if I film myself doing something, I can combat the habit of just pacing around daydreaming about things instead. I’ve basically started having a pretend YouTube channel where I build my projects. The thought that I’m going to be watched later really makes me be productive. Maybe I’ll actually post the video I’m making.https://www.reddit.com/r/Maladapti...

11Mar

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Community

Çağla Altıntaş on the Turkish community Özgür Düş and Maladaptive Daydreaming

In this video Turkish psychologist Çağla Altıntaş explains a bit about Maladaptive Daydreaming and her hopes for the Turkish community. English subtitles are available in the video and there is a transcription below https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc21XZoH1y0 Özlem: Hello! Could you please tell us about yourself and about this Platform? Altıntaş: Sure. My name is Çağla Altıntaş, I am a psychologist. I've created Özgür Düş Platform in order to convey information specifically about Maladaptive Daydreaming, to evaluate the accuracy of information scattered around the web and make it accessible to people that need it, and to make the scientifically accurate information more understandable. Even though we are concentrating on maladaptive daydreaming content we create will also b...

Attachment Characteristics and Emotion Regulation Difficulties Among Maladaptive and Normal Daydreamers.

11Mar

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Research

Attachment Characteristics and Emotion Regulation Difficulties Among Maladaptive and Normal Daydreamers.

ICMDR announces a new study published on Maladaptive Daydreaming This study was conducted by The University of Debrecen, Hungary. They studied the attachment characteristics and the difficulties in emotion regulation among maladaptive and normal daydreamers. Abstract: Maladaptive daydreaming is an excessive form of daydreaming which causes significant distress and functional impairment to the affected individuals. Research on maladaptive daydreaming has intensified in recent years, but its pathogenesis has not yet been clearly elucidated. The aim of the study was to examine the attachment characteristics and the difficulties in emotion regulation among maladaptive and normal daydreamers. 717 individuals were recruited online, 106 of whom were screened as maladaptive daydreamers....

Overcoming Together Post; How to Write Your Own Medical History and Find the Right Doctor

11Mar

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Advise

Overcoming Together Post; How to Write Your Own Medical History and Find the Right Doctor

Advise for Maladaptive Daydreamers and anyone with a difficult to diagnose condition. Overcoming Together gives solid advise in their article How to Write Your Own Medical History and Find the Right Doctor. Here Dr. Stephen J. Bigelsen breaks it down into 7 steps and gives some insight into how to find a doctor who can work with a difficult to diagnose condition. Overcoming Together is the passion project of Jayne Rachel, a long time advocate and researcher of MD. Being a recovered MDer herself this site is meant to empower MDers, and other people with hard to diagnose or overlooked conditions, and give them agency. Write Your Own History Any doctor will tell you that the first step to making the proper diagnosis is taking a good history. Taking a patient’s history is a...