How do you live a fulfilling life as a maladaptive daydreamer? How do you stop the urge to do it?
I’ve been doubt this since early high school. I spend literally hours every day just pacing around, daydreaming about things. Sometimes the daydreams are really fictional like imagining being in a fantasy kingdom. Other times they’re realistic like imagining myself as a published writer or reimagining a conversation with someone that didn’t go the way I wanted.
The issue is that I haven’t been productive in years due to this. I always turn in work late and I haven’t spend time on things I’d really like to do like learning a language because every time I sit down, I can’t say still and have to pace around inside my own mind until the sun sets. I can’t even do the things I used to love like reading books.
It’s sad... I feel like I’ll amount to nothing because of this. I also feel like my daydreams are another life and getting rid of them will make me boring and empty.
If you’re a maladaptive daydreamer, how did you help yourself?