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hiya nye!! hope you're doing good :3
looking for some OC advice if that's okay: i have an OC who has MDD, but afaik i don't have it myself and i really want to avoid harmful stereotyping or unrealistic portrayals!
was wondering if you have any tips on writing it, if there's anything specific i should know (if there's treatment, side-effects, etc.) or just anything to avoid in terms of stereotypes?
obviously don't answer this if you don't want to, it's probably very personal, and take your time if you do! i want to avoid screwing up, and while i am also going to check out articles and do my research, i also want to make sure i'm not accidentally being a prick or looking at misinformation and ask you if you have any advice :)
thank you so much! have a nice day nye, stay hydrated :D
Heeyyyy Artsy :3
I'd be happy to help in whatever way I can, but heads up I'm not professionally diagnosed or anything and am definitely not an expert on the topic, so this will just be from my personal experience
So of course maladaptive daydreaming is different for everyone, I think the most common interpretation of it is someone who might use their persona to self insert themselves into media they might like, or a personally written story. Sometimes they might be pre-written and played out (I personally believe this is what "shifters" do). A second common one might be writing a story by thinking about it as a show, where you yourself may not be involved. Many people wrote brilliant stories using this method.
My personal experience is that I can count multiple times where my maladaptive daydreaming was more prominent throughout my life, but I can't really pick it out if childhood experiences as it was kind of like the hit thing to be good at imagining when you were 5.
My standout experience with MDD is ongoing. It started five years ago and it involves myself and other people consistently. There is no change in plot or reboots, I consider these people consistent as any other person I might know. Plainly, I consider the maladaptive daydreaming characters that I have created (ocs) AND have not created to exist as people in some way, so I treat them as such.
Part of my MDD is that these people I know through my head interact with people from the real world, having casual conversations and such.
My level of focus on my MDD varies on my mental health and environment, it usually ranges from maybe 1 interaction a day to things I have planned for the day being cancelled because I'm busy daydreaming. My daydreaming friends will often grow distressed if I don't speak to them for long periods of time. Some of them (my ocs) fear that they'd cease to exist, while others may fear their friends could disappear, including me.
Something well known for MDD is repetitive motions, personally I find my stims outside of MDD are larger and more noticable, while I'm daydreaming sometimes my repetitive motions will be spinning a pen or something as miniscule as timed blinking or eye movement. It's like keeping pace to me, like they tell you to associate a smell with sleeping if you have a hard time sleeping. The motions help keep me focused on my daydreams.
I don't like closing my eyes when I daydream, but I do like dark rooms. I also prefer background noise. It's also well known people like to listen to music while they daydream, and I do, but the noise doesn't have to be music. It just has to be constant and have some kind of pattern that I can tune out to. The noise helps distract me from what I see visually!
I haven't researched treatment because recently I've been quite good at regulating my daydreams, and in the past it's been a fear of mine. I think the only treatment there would be for MDD is finding other coping mechanisms.
As for side effects, I'm not sure what would qualify. I can get angry at daydreams the same way I would anything else, same goes for every emotion. Sometimes it just makes my mood seem out of place, I think. I also think it's obvious when I'm daydreaming, because people usually poke me or wave a hand in front of my face (THIS IS SO ANNOYING DON'T DO THIS I'M DAYDREAMING FOR A REASON). MDD sometimes restricts my real life experiences, socializing, sometimes makes me forget meals, it also makes my memory of everything worse, instead replaced by memories of daydreams. MDD is something that I deal with, while I know it's a negative thing it's something that I don't have any desire to detach myself from. That's a scary idea to me, so I suppose that's a side effect in itself.
As far as writing a character with MDD goes, you'd have to know what they were daydreaming about first. A lot of the rest of the traits, such as what noise or actions they use, would be down to their other characteristics. If I was going to avoid something, it would be to not make everything they daydream about separate to reality. Almost everyone I've known with MDD has integrated their realities in some way, whether it be having their persona personality shine through, their daydreams interact with people around them, writing about it, drawing or infodumping. Of course this might not be everyone, but I think it also depends how private of a person they are. People who have MDD tend to know they're creating something complex.
Thanks for asking me Artsy, again, this is just from personal experiences. Hope this helped! :3
#Long story short MDD makes reality even more depressing and scary#THAT'S the side effect#Mdd#Maladaptive daydreaming#Shoutout to my maladaptive friends you guys saved me from the abyss multiple times and have also made me fail 2 exams#Brown noise goes crazy for dark room MDD#My MDD = W.H.I.D?#that's my documentation#it's also like simplified for story purposes#wouldn't recommend turning yourself into a cartoon character that's bizarre#GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR CHARACTER!!!#maladaptive daydreaming
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quiz enjoyers! i am now inviting you to come create something in my workshop❕
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my parents are on holiday in their mobile home
they're expected back this upcoming weekend
I just spent ten days in my childhood home to keep an eye on things
I have hidden 100 small yellow ducks all over the house
I am very excited for my parents to be back
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more bugs more drinking
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errrmm.... doodle dump???
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everyones fave thieves
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Anya: My Mama will hear about this!!!!


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WIP peek at the hugging werewolves ♥
#colors look washed out in some places but not others because a base layer of underglaze has already been fired on!#theyll be fired again then get my usual dark wash + final detail pass. very excited for how theyre coming out !!!#documenting the process as much as i can for yall as well. gonna make a nice detailed post when theyre done#artistic nudity#ceramics#clay#sculpture#animal art#wip#furry#werewolf#anthro#wolf
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*Odysseus’ crew appear in The Underworld post-Thunder Bringer*
Hades: Weren’t you just here?
#hades: you managed to piss off BOTH of my brothers?!#epic the musical#epic the thunder saga#epic the underworld saga#jorge rivera herrans#pretty sure hades would just nope out at that point#like no not aga8n#odysseus#the odyssey#homer#greek mythology#hades#you know you can’t just go to the underworld whenever you feel like it#there are rules#Charon pulls out a stack of documents#Thunder Bringer
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local snake tells everyone he is very venomous, is actually a constrictor. embarrassing
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I love writing again. Except for that One Paragraph
#sara shush#what if i started live blogging my writing process#something i will not do but imagine if i stream it again with mic on and you just get#a blank document with no progression and then 1k words typed out and then pause and then again and several curses
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any printer born after 2007 can't print... all they know is bluetooth , hide they usb port, tray feed error, be out of magenta , eat paper & tell HP my social security number
#this has been sitting unfinished in my drafts for over a year#trying to print this goddamn document finally pushed me over the edge#if any volunteers want to break into my home and smash my printer to bits. my address is 1234 main street
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She's lecturing them
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My dealer: got some straight gas 🔥😛 this strain is called “Blue Prince” 🟦🤴📕 you’ll be zonked out of your gourd 📜📰🗞️📊💹
Me: yeah whatever it's just another strategy roguelike.
5 minutes later: Dude I swear I just saw an eighth red letter in Herbert's safe.
My buddy Simon pacing: I think that the Red Guard's investigation into our mother's disappearance was a political manhunt organized by a militaristic ethnostate.
#blue prince#roguelike#strategy roguelike#I am going insane#my notes document is 40 pages right now#WHAT IS THE FUCKING CODE TO THE SAFE IN THE GODDAMN DRAFTING ROOM#IT'S NOT NOV 7TH#IS IT NOV 7TH???#I NEED TO GO BACK INTO THE HOUSE
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