What do people think about instead of maladaptive daydreaming?
So I recently realized that I’ve been maladaptive daydreaming for most of my life. I’ll randomly imagine myself in scenarios where I’m super popular, going to my dream university, or I create stories about other characters living way better lives than mine.
Lately it’s been getting worse. I can barely focus in school anymore, and it’s starting to hit me that my real life doesn’t match anything I’ve been imagining. Honestly, I feel pretty miserable in reality, and I want to start fixing this, but I don’t really know how.
I’ve been reading through this subreddit and seeing advice, but the main thing I’m stuck on is this: what do people actually think about if they don’t maladaptive daydream? I rely on it so much that my mind automatically goes there all the time, even when I’m trying to fall asleep.
If I stop, I genuinely don’t know what else to think about, and that’s the part that’s confusing me the most. How do you replace it?