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Do you have maladaptive daydreaming?

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So this is so huge for me still, it is impacting on my life, in that I am not present enough to live it. It is so all hypnotically encompassing!

I am more aware of it, and I am trying to be willing to change, and at times I am challenging it a lot!
 
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Do you feel like you’re in a fog and at the same time see a clear view around you? I get that happening daily. Makes me very anxious when I can’t remember what just happened. Then it’s acid flowing through my veins.
 
This is my biggest struggle, and I need to get on top of this so I can complete my medication taper off (under medical supervision), I will have to work hard on this. I will break the back of this. I can do it. I can do it. I will do it. I will notice it as much as I need to, so I can be here now.

This morning I walked slowly and noticed my walking, instead of being in my head, and I had to keep coming back to the walking but I did it, and I slipped off, and I kept coming back. I kept coming back. My psychiatrist talks to me about challenging the obsessive thinking, and this is what I will do now. I walked and I walked to be grounded. I walked to be grounded. I was grounded for moments. I was grounded for moments.

I have to keep breaking through it to be back here now. It is really hard for me!
 
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I walked an hour again this evening, slowly, in order to protect my knee, but walking to keep my exercise and movement up. I was in maladaptive daydreaming part of the walk, but I kept bringing myself back to have awareness of the way that I am walking, the way I am walking with my partner, to what my partner was saying, what the dog was sniffing, and how the dog was urinating, and that was a mindful movement exercise. I am attempting to take the exercises that I have learnt in The Alexander Technique into the other parts of my day, such as my walking. It was not easy and the intrusive maladaptiving daydreaming kept intruding, but I did a little bit better with it.

This is the next big challenge for me.
 
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