Dissociative Identity Disorder

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[yvonnemunongo]

Day dreaming is my defense mechanism. Every thing that is overwhelming me I just travel to dreamland and am happy.but it keeps me from studying and connecting with the present.i need solutions

[iqrakarim]

I am an extreme MDD. Any time I'm not being watched I daydream. If a song starts to play, I'll imagine myself in the video. At other times I would imagine myself in situations and have conversations with people. I do laugh and cry and do all sorts of weird shit like I'm actually in that moment but at the same time I'm fully aware that it's not real and I can snap out of it whenever I have to/ want to. And while I'm doing this I don't want to stop. It's usually situation that I wish happened. The reason in worried is that any time I don't have a distraction I'm daydreaming and I can go on for hours. I thinks that's not good and I need to stop. I don't know what to do, for a moment I thought I was schizophrenic.

[mupzii]

Maladaptive daydreaming is NOT dissociative identity disorder. They are very separate. Please distinguish between the two. This video is supposedly about dissociative identity disorder but it has maladaptive daydreaming in the title and that is problematic.

[perfumaphilia]

Since I was a kid, I have fantasized and envisioned my "ideal self" in different scenarios. Obviously, the details of these fantasies change as I get older, but the overall themes remains the same: I am central to the fantasy. I am at my most fit and most attractive and wearing whatever I look best/feel more comfortable in. I am fully engaged with the people around me and they are fully engaged with me. I'm usually performing somehow, either musically, athletically, academically, sexually etc. and receiving a lot of praise and admiration for it. Other fantasies include me traveling, completing tasks, or experiencing things in very idealistic ways, in very idealistic surroundings. They usually involve me having a lot of money and my "dream" house. Can anyone else relate to this? I'm not sure if this qualifies as maladaptive daydreaming.

[KayS]

I always thought that maladaptive daydreaming and DID were two completely different things, where someone with MDD knows they are fantasizing and is in touch with reality, while someone with DID actually becomes the other personality and has no recollection of what the last personality did when they "switch back."

[rapunzelmane]

These are two different disorders, surely. Maladaptive Daydreaming Disorder would be when you are daydreaming most of the day (when you are alone) but are totally in touch with reality (when necessary) and you only have one personality, not multiple.

[briannam.]

I’ve been daydreaming like this for years, since I was little. I think it’s rly because I feel like my friends don’t actually like me and it’s nice to imagine that I have people that do like me //:

[angelinafrenken]

I have this thing, I do this everyday . I listen to music or just sit somewhere and think of stories that are my ideal life . It really helps me deal with stress or other difficult things . I do not really want to leave this place .

[NEFARlOUS]

Oh wow. Why name video Maladaptive Daydreaming when you're talking about DID. They're deadass two different things.

[Daisy-kgho]

I feel like I used my maladaptive daydreaming to cope with reality and now it's become dissociation. Now I'm constantly "disconnected from reality."

[gummybones]

There's a lot of misinformation in this video. DID is not going off into a daydream and imagining yourself as people with better lives. In fact DID has little to do with imagination.
It's literally going through severe long term abuse as a child, and when you don't have the ability to process said abuse for whatever reason and come to terms with it, your brain to PROTECT you sections off memories of the abuse, emotions of the abuse, unwanted personality traits, etc (Or a more appropriate explanation is fails to integrate these experiences into a unified sense of self because it'd be damaging to the individual to do so). Those parts never integrate with the person's sense of self so instead the person develops multiple senses of self. Then when you add in that your brain puts up amnesia barriers or disconnects you from those experiences to protect you from what they hold, those parts don't see themselves all as the same person, but all as their own individuals. It varies on a spectrum where some people can have fragment alters that are more like single emotions or experiences, or some that are out enough can develop their own full blown personalities and names because they have the chance to respond to situations and become more of their own people. The disorder HAS to form in childhood when the kid does not yet have an integrated sense of self, but the disorder can present itself at any time in someone's life.

DID has nothing to do with daydreaming. Yes daydreaming is a form of dissociation but daydreaming/creating alter egos/imagining yourself as different people/roleplaying is NOT remotely the same thing.

[Mitsomnia]

I didn't know maladaptive daydreaming was a disorder. I have been doing this since I was probably 10 years old, 11 years. I never thought it was bad. It helps me feel better. It's better than watching TV. So weird... I don't even know if I want to "recover" because it helps me so much.

[soshanicey]

I overcame maladaptive daydreaming!!! I did that for years and years, but once I started working with my therapist, the less I did it. Not intentionally. I didn’t intend to stop, I just gradually started doing it less when I improved my mindset. I do daydream still, but actual normal daydreams haha

[IDrankTheSeaWater]

I know people who have this. A close friend of mine too. And I was part of a forum for survivors of abuse and many of them had DID or were alters.
Also they create what is often called "Alters" in their minds that are like seperate people/personalities. They have their own likes, ages, genders, talents and intelligence. Some can have different disabilities. Like one of the alters may need glasses when the others don't.
They are able to show with brain scans the differences of when one alter appears or when it may be what is often called "the core person."
The person with this will have memory gaps from when an alter takes over, or they may feel like they are watching it happen but not in control.
Alters may contain the memories of certain traumatic events depending on the alter. Like the 3 year old could have the memories of what happened at that age and can if they chose, share the memories with the core person.
Sometimes they are not aware of each other. Sometimes they can leave notes for each other and some journal entries may be of different alters.
There is often what is known as "the protector." A more aggressive personality that takes its upon themselves to protect everyone and may come out in dangerous situations where they feel threatened.
(Just a few more details) You can correct me if I'm wrong!

(Loved the vid Kati. I linked it in mine)

[KayeRottenbone]

Vivid imaginations gives you an opportunity to go to another place which you can create yourself. I was really imaginative as a kid, and daydreaming became like an endless routine. It’s so fun and everything because the images are so vivid that you can visually create your own world. However, it’s also extremely shameful. I had to hide in a bathroom or lock myself in my bedroom whenever I had to daydream. But, I wouldn’t immediately say that it is DID. I’m quite aware of the barrier between the reality and my imaginations. I just find daydreaming a relaxing activity to cope with stress, anxiety and depression, and it also helps me stay creative when I’m drawing and painting. It also have helped me maintain my good grades at university despite that I barely study and procrastinate instead by daydreaming. It’s shameful but also a wonderful gift that some people wouldn’t understand.

[Kiba]

I have MDD but don’t recall experiencing any trauma when I was younger

[kirbycobain]

this video is honestly really confusing... maladaptive daydreaming and did are completely different things. im honestly really disappointed that you never distinguished between the two. maladaptive daydreaming is exactly what it sounds like: daydreaming. its an excessive amount of daydreaming that can interfere with someones daily life because they spend so much time in that other reality. DID on the other hand, is literally becoming a different person, or alter, and coming back later without realizing what happened. im not the best at explaining things, but honestly i was hoping you knew better. this video is very misinformative.

[denisela]

Omg. I've been doing this forever. Since like 7. Thought I was the queen of daydreaming. I even do it when driving and shopping. Like I know it's not real, i can switch it in and off like a light switch, but I like to go to that zone because I can be who I want to be and create a whole family and city and neighborhood and career in a matter of secs and live there and then put it on hold for a couple of hours and go right back to where I left off, even though I find myself slipping when i should be focusing on something important. I think I've had 3 episodes of DID tho. Like I'd rather daydream than watch tv.. .. because what I've created in my head is a lot more better and sometimes more funny than tv.🤷🏾‍♀️🤷🏾‍♀️ 🙈🙈
I never mentioned it because I thought I was the only one and mental stuff is frowned upon in the blk community and plus pple will be like just stop daydreaming. It's not that it now just happens without a second thought.... like it just happens automatically....and i get pretty agitated if I can't get my me time. Didn't know it was a thing.

[kaimerritt]

I have Dissociative Identity Disorder and these are not the same thing. Maladaptive daydreaming is just what it sounds like where as with DID, you have zero recollection of switching into that alter (most of the time.) Although you can cure maladaptive daydreaming, DID can not be cured. Its is much like sitting in the passenger seat of a car. You can see what is happening but you can't control your body.

[jonv]

What she described is exactly what happened to me. I had a traumatic and abusive childhood and I developed moderate MDD. When I worked through it, I went from MDing for most of the day to maybe an hour or 2 a day. I'm still improving, but I've come a long way so I'm quite proud of myself. Nobody knows I have this, it can be so unnoticeable.
I don't have DID though, nowhere close. I only have the one real identity and one "fake" identity that I've always been fully aware wasn't real. It seems to me like there's a big difference.