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Results in; October 1st chosen as MD awareness date.

7Nov

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Announcement, Event

Results in; October 1st chosen as MD awareness date.

The awareness poll results are in. This poll was shared across MD communities on a variety of platforms. Thank you to everyone who participated. October 1st is the date that was chosen. MDC members are currently working to meet requirements for awareness day registries. In the meantime though; we do not need the date to be registered to observe it. Please contact the MDC with awareness event or campaign ideas.

7Oct

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Media

Call for Participation; Article

NYC masters program journalist looking for interviewees If you would like to be interviewed by Lauren read the Call below and contact her via the email provided. Hi All,My name is Lauren and I'm a journalist and writer based in New York City. I'm currently working on an article about Maladaptive Daydreaming. I've currently been able to interview the leader of an MD support group and am in the process of setting up interviews with some "experts" including a documentary film director who did a piece on MD. I'm really hoping, however, to get to talk to some people within the community/who experience Maladaptive Daydreaming. Really to provide a platform for your experiences/stories/voices.If anyone here would be at all willing to speak with me, I'd be so appreciative of any time that ...

1Oct

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Arts, Event

MaDDtober Kicks Off

A Maladaptive Daydreaming themed Inktober Inktober is a popular month long art challenge. Every year a list of prompts is posted and artists and armatures alike take up the challenge. The premise is simple; Make a art based on the prompt, post it to social media, hastag it, repeat the next day until the end of the month. Many niche interests and subcultures generate themed lists for their own communities, the Maladaptive Daydreaming community among them. It began in 2020 with the MD YouTuber MaDDArt and will, hopefully, continue for years to come. Anyone can participate! Try your hand at all the prompts, pick and choose your favorites, just remember the hashtag!#maddtober

30Sep

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Media

Her Campus Features Piece on MD

UIC student, Tayo Omoniyi, shares her experience with MD Her Campus is an online magazine created by, and catering to, college aged women. Recently in the sites mental health section a short personal piece on Maladaptive Daydreaming was published. Here is an excerpt from the article: In my daydreams, I had set up my own universe, filled with my own characters, settings, and plots. I could write a dozen novels from the recesses of my old daydreams. Some of my daydreams were also inspired by my real life. However, the daydreams caused a lot of distraction and kept me from really interacting with the world around me. I found myself detaching when I was in lecture, in conversation with someone else, and difficulty concentrating even on everyday tasks. https://www.hercampus.com/s...

Artist, Ashley Wright Brings Awareness to Mental Health and Maladaptive Daydreaming

27Sep

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Arts, Event

Artist, Ashley Wright Brings Awareness to Mental Health and Maladaptive Daydreaming

Art Association features Redlands native, U of R grad From the article: “My paintings are visually inspired by the natural landscapes of Southern California, 1980s and ’90s nostalgia, and sci-fi artwork,” she said. “I am surrounded by the beautiful San Bernardino National Forest, Joshua Tree National Park, Santa Rosa Wilderness and the Angeles National Forest. These natural landscapes have played a huge part in my life and continue to inspire my art.”She has a passion for raising awareness around mental health.“Each painting is a peek into how my mind perceives the world while struggling with dissociation, derealization, depersonalization and maladaptive daydreaming,” she said.https://www.redlandscommunitynews.com/news/art-association-features-redlands-native-u-of-r-grad/article_74f...

23Sep

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Research

Call for Participation; Oral History of MD

Graduate student at The New School looking for Interviewees Awareness comes in many forms, every highschool paper, every graduate research project, is an opportunity for a classroom of young minds to hear this term for the first time. If you'd like to help students out with projects, papers and theses they are listed on under the Participate tab. Here's our most recent addition: My name is Hannah and I’m a graduate student at The New School. I’m currently working on an oral history project centered around Maladaptive Daydreaming, and I was wondering if anyone here would be willing to do a Zoom interview with me? I would really, really appreciate it. I’m especially interested in talking to people who have paracosms/imaginary worlds, but I welcome all perspectives. If you’re intere...

Call for participation: Awareness Dates Poll

21Sep

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Community

Call for participation: Awareness Dates Poll

Take this poll to help us choose a time to observe MD We’d like to take a moment to ask ALL MDers, on every platform, to take this brief poll. Awareness efforts have been scattered, with everyone doing their own thing. We’d like the community, as a whole, to decide when is the best time for a Maladaptive Daydreaming Awareness ‘observance’ of some kind. Every single vote matters.If you are bi-lingual: Below there are links to this survey in various languages. Please, take them, carry them to any community or Maladaptive Daydreamer you know of in these languages. Here is the survey in: English https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GrMXHNKiVb-1AAgGbPWGG6YPYkh7qfFlSSWTah89OkI/edit French/français https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1PNVBhKXDfYrNXTbHakaUfCgzSP...

Psychology Today Published Article on MD

17Sep

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Media

Psychology Today Published Article on MD

The new study on MD and personality traits has piqued the media's attention. Psychology Today picked up Mark Travers' article overviewing a recent study that was published in the journal Personalities and Individual Differences. Below is an excerpt from the piece: According to previous studies, approximately 4 to 6 percent of people spend large chunks of their waking time in fantasy. These fantasies become maladaptive when they produce shame, loneliness, emotional pain, and interfere with one’s ability to engage in normal life activities. Studies suggest that maladaptive daydreaming first appears in youth and is more likely to affect individuals exposed to childhood trauma.In this study, the researchers were interested in identifying the common themes that appeared in the fantasies ...

Daydreamers Film featured in Dutch Newspaper

15Sep

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Media

Daydreamers Film featured in Dutch Newspaper

De Volkskrant ran a story on The Daydreamers film. Daily morning paper recently published a piece on The Daydreamers film, by Thomas Renckens. The film has been making the rounds in festivals and aired on Dutch television. Here's an excerpt from the story, titled "Dagdromen om niet te hoeven leven" (Daydreaming to not have to Live) in de Volkskrant (translated to English): Where is the border? When does a mental pick-me-up daydream become a disorder, like Jessica's from the documentary? What about Agatha, who replays in her head for hours every day a scene she imagined around a boy she once had a crush on? "They are no longer in control," says trauma psychologist Eli Somer, who spoke to both women at length before the film. " Maladaptive daydreamers have a serious defect, which ...

Childhood traumatization and dissociative experiences among maladaptive and normal daydreamers in a Hungarian sample

15Sep

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Research

Childhood traumatization and dissociative experiences among maladaptive and normal daydreamers in a Hungarian sample

New Study Published A new study from the University of Debrecen, Hungary, looks at childhood trauma in a sample of over 700 people. Here's the abstract: The aim of the study was to identify some potential etiological segments of maladaptive daydreaming, especially the relationships between maladaptive daydreaming, childhood traumatization, and dissociative propensity. The questionnaire package included the Hungarian version of the Maladaptive Daydreaming Scale, the Traumatic Antecedents Questionnaire, as well as the Dissociation Questionnaire. 717 participants were recruited online, 106 of whom were problematic daydreamers. The results revealed that certain types of childhood trauma occurred significantly more frequently in the group of maladaptive daydreamers. Furthermore, maladap...